SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Today Adrian Dabrowski gives his talk “Towards Carrier Based IMSI Catcher Detection” at the TelcoSecDay 2016. Abstract: In this presentation we discuss multiple detection capabilities of IMSI Catchers (aka Stingray) from the network operator’s point of view. We draw a comprehensive picture on current threats against mobile… Read More
has been extended to March 29, 2016! Find the Call for Papers here. The ARES Conference will be held in Salzburg, Austria from August 31 – September 2, 2016.
Yesterday, a delegation of SBA Research visited the CSIRT team at Masaryk University and discussed project ideas and possibilities for collaboration. Their impressive cyberranch shown below is part of the KYPO project, and used for teaching and CTFs. Read More
Our paper Pin It! Improving Android Network Security At Runtime (by Damjan Buhov, Markus Huber, Georg Merzdovnik and Edgar Weippl) has been accepted at the A-rated conference IFIP Networking 2016. Read More
We had a great time at Financial Crypto and Ross Anderson’s group maintains a nice blog that also covered the conference. Read the comments to our paper.
Today a new attack against TLS was published, DROWN. In essence, it allows attackers to decrypt strong TLS connections using TLS 1.2 and other versions, if the deprecated protocol SSLv2 is supported by the server. Previous work by SBA Research has shown that this is… Read More
The kick-off meeting of the Management Committee (MC) for the new COST Action CA15217 “Resilient communication services protecting end-user applications from disaster-based failures (RECODIS)” is taking place on March 1, 2016 in the COST Association premises in Brussels, Belgium. Austria is among the 22 European countries that have already signed… Read More
SBA Research will be present at the Software Engineering (SE) conference this week in Vienna. Martin Schmiedecker will talk today about SBA Research and on the panel on technology transfer, hosted at SE FIT. You can find the detailed program of SE’2016 here. Read More
Last week, our annual event for partners and friends of SBA Research, IMPACT, brought together experts, practitioners, and decision-makers from research, industry, and the open-source community. The afternoon provided an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in security, AI, and innovation, celebrate our long-standing relationships, and mark 20 years of SBA Research’s contributions to cutting-edge cybersecurity and trustworthy digital innovation. ∞
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 22st ICT Security Conference on 16 and 17 September 2026, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. ∞
A new paper, “Automated Reasoning for Indistinguishability in the CCSA,” co-authored by Laura Kovács, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and Matteo Maffei, key researcher at SBA Research and Professor at TU Wien, has been accepted for presentation at the 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). ∞