SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
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
Artemios G. Voyiatzis gave an invited talk on “Security Challenges in Disruption- and Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTN)” at the University of Passau, Germany on Thursday, 18.02.2016, 14:00-15:00. Abstract: Delay-Tolerant Networks were originally proposed to cope with the enormous delays involved in deep-space communications. The architecture proved to fit many Internet of Things (IoT)… Read More
CERT.at released the report about internet security in Austria in 2015. Andreas Tomek contributed to the report with the article “Spoofed Invoice Fraud – Cyber Vorfälle treffen Österreichs Industrie”. The article can be found here. The complete CERT.at annual report 2015 can be found here. See also the news article… Read More
The kick off meeting of the SPLIT (Security Protocol Interaction Testing in Practice) project took place on February 10th, 2016 at SBA Research. SPLIT is funded under the Bridge Early Phase programme of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). The project aims to provide quality assurance of security protocols… Read More
This week, Aaron and Wilfried presented the latest results of our ongoing scanning activities at the monthly cert.at Stammtisch. Have a look at the slides on slideshare.
The ITEA2-project DIAMONDS (“Development and Industrial Application of Multi-Domain Security Testing Technologies”) has been selected as winner of the prestigious EUREKA Innovation Award 2015/2016 in the category ‘Added Value’. SBA Research participated in this ITEA2-action via the Bridge –project MoBseTIP (“Model-Based Security Testing In Practice”), in which Dimitris Simos served… Read More