SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Katharina Krombholz, researcher at SBA Research, has been awarded as Fem Tech Expert of the month July by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology. The goal of this initiative is to promote successful female scientists in technical fields. See the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgc9rN91TGM&feature=youtu.be… Read More
Antitza Dantcheva, post-doctoral fellow at the STARS team, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, gives a guest talk about “Soft Biometrics: Applications in Security, Beauty Estimation and Healthcare”. Abstract Tuesday, 07.07.2015 , 14:00-15:00 This event is hosted by the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter.
Edgar Weippl was on a panel discussion on new business models, technology and legal constraints. “Cloud solutions allow startups to scale their technical infrastructure quickly, but scaling is hard when it comes to different national legal systems” (OTS, Video statements, Photos). Photos: APA-Fotoservice/Preiss… Read More
The ERCIM News No. 102 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en102 SBA Research contributed with two articles: CyPhySec: Defending Cyber-Physical Systems by Johanna Ullrich and Edgar Weippl CyberROAD: Developing a Roadmap for Research in Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism by Peter Kieseberg
Ulrich Bayer, Aljosha Judmayer and Edgar Weippl presented how cyber-fraud is conducted and use and misuse of BitCoin at the Vienna Cyber Diplomacy Day organized in Hofburg. Read More
“Die IT-Sicherheitsexperten von SBA Research gehen davon aus, dass derzeit noch rund ein Drittel aller Server auf dem veralteten System laufen – und sehen daher entsprechenden Handlungsbedarf. „E-Mail-Server, Web-Server oder gar Netzwerk-Server können nicht mehr sicher gegen Bedrohungen abgeschirmt werden, wenn es keinen aktuellen Support dafür gibt. Das stellt eine… Read More
Raschin Tavakoli, Bernhard Garn, Peter Aufner and Dimitris Simos of the Combinatorial Security Testing Team of SBA Research found several critical security vulnerabilities in the Koha Library Software. The vulnerabilities involve a variety of serious issues like unauthenticated SQL Injection, Local File Inclusions, XSS and XRFS which allow remote attackers to completely… 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). ∞