SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
“Die siebte Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS) des (ISC)² kommt zu dem Schluss, das international bis 2020 1,5 Millionen IT-Security-Fachkräfte fehlen werden. Aber wie sieht die Lage in Österreich aus? Computerwelt.at hat den Experten Andreas Tomek, Head of Professional Services bei SBA Research und Vorstandsmitglied beim (ISC)² Chapter Österreich,… Read More
The paper “Privacy-preserving Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks based on Bloom Filters ” by Evangelos Papapetrou (University of Ioannina, Greece), Vasileios F. Bourgos (University of Ioannina, Greece), and Artemios G. Voyiatzis (SBA Research, Austria) has been accepted for publication in the 16th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless,… Read More
Eine kürzlich bekanntgewordene schwere Windows Lücke betrifft vor allem Windows Webserver. Derzeit (16.04.2015) sind nur Denial-of-Service Angriffe möglich. Es ist relativ wahrscheinlich, dass in naher Zukunft Angriffe mit höherem Risiko entwickelt werden. SBA Research hat alle derzeit verfügbaren Informationen in einem White-Paper zusammengefasst: SBA Whitepaper: Microsoft HTTP.sys Schwachstelle Für… Read More
Das Security Afterworks am 14. April 2015 beschäftigte sich mit dem Thema “Cybercrime – Lessons From The Field & Best Of Troopers15”. Andreas Tomek sprach über Cybercrime-Vorfälle des letzten Jahres und bereitet diese hinsichtlich Identifikation, Incident Response und Prävention auf. Danach fassten Andrian Dabrowski und Peter Kieseberg die Hot Topics der… Read More
Edgar Weippl was invited as expert to the focus group of the European project COURAGE (Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism European Research Agenda) at West Yorkshire Police’s District HQ in Leeds.
The paper “Constructing Orthogonal Designs in Powers of Two: Groebner Bases Meet Equational Unification” by Dimitris E. Simos (SBA Research, Austria), Ilias Kotsireas (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada), Temur Kutsia (RISC – Johannes Kepler University, Austria) has been accepted for publication in 26th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA… Read More
Dimitris Simos gives a talk on April, 13th in the Fourth International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2015) about an Evaluation of the IPO-Family Algorithms for Test Case Generation in Web Security Testing. The workshop takes place in Graz, Austria and is collocated with ICST2015 (8th… Read More
Katharina Krombholz gives a talk about “Usable Security and Privacy in Mobile and Wearable Computing” at the Vienna University of Technology. Monday, April 13th, 13.00 TU Vienna, Bibliothek 187/2 Details
Students of SBA Research participated as members of the team We0wnY0u of the Vienna University of Technology in the international capture-the-flag contest iCTF. In an 8 hours timeframe, 42 (in words: forty two) services were to exploit from previous iCTF competitions. Overall… 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). ∞