Floragasse 7 – 5th floor, 1040 Vienna

SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Upcoming Events:

Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 1
05.10.2026 - 07.10.2026
Linux Plumbers Conference 2026
05.10.2026 - 07.10.2026
IMPACT 2026
08.10.2026

Recent News:

Paper accepted @ DBSec16

The paper “Whom You Gonna Trust? A Longitudinal Study on TLS Notary Services” by Georg Merzdovnik, Klaus Falb, Martin Schmiedecker, Artemios Voyiatzis and Edgar Weippl has been accepted for publication in the 30th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2016)… Read More

Cryptocurrencies Tutorial at WWW 2016

Aljosha Judmayr’s Tutorial on Cryptocurrencies at WWW 2016 was very well received. WWW’s keynote speakers Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Mary Ellen Zurko attended and you can read Mary Ellen’s tweets (tweet (Tweet, more ) Other positive comments by Tactika and Surya Kallumadi. Read More

Katharina Krombholz @ “Lange Nacht der Forschung” kick-off event

Katharina Krombholz was invited to participate in the kick-off event and press conference of “Lange Nacht der Forschung” together with Gerald Klug (technology minister), Hannes Androsch (Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development) and Clara Eibensteiner (bmvit-research trainee). In front of the ‘Research-Tram”: Gerald Klug, Clara Eibensteiner,… Read More

Lange Nacht der Forschung

Martin Schmiedecker and Sebastian Neuer gave insights into how hackers really worked in contrast to the what is portrayed in movies. A second exhibit showed how mobile devices may compromise their owners’ privacy. You can find the pictures from the OCG here. Read More

Adrian Dabrowski at Ö1

On April 22, 2016, Adrian Dabrowski is a guest at Ö1 “Nachtquartier” and speaks about “to hack or not to hack”. He will answer questions from the audience about the life of a hacker and IT security researcher. April 22, 2016, 00:05, http://oe1.orf.at/programm/434407 

SBA at Alpbach – Breakout Session on Cyber-Security

Under the lead of TU Austria, we organize an Alpbach Breakout Session on Cyber-Security as a fundamental right. Participants include Isao Echizen (NII), Lokke Moerel (Tilburg University), Günter Müller (University of Freiburg), Reinhard Posch (TU Graz), and Bart Preneel (University of Leuven).

Tomasz Miksa PhD defense

Tomek defended his PhD thesis “Verification and Validation of Scientific Workflow Re-executions” successfully and graduated with distinction. Congratulations!… Read More

Guest Talk: “DNS Traffic Analysis: Opportunities, Risks, and (Self-)Defenses”

Dominik Herrmann, post-doctoral researcher in the Security in Distributed Systems Group (SVS) at University of Hamburg, Germany gives a talk about “DNS Traffic Analysis: Opportunities, Risks, and (Self-)Defenses”. Abstract. Friday, 15.04.2016, 14.00-15.00 This event is hosted by the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter.

ERCIM News No.105

The ERCIM News No. 105 has just been published here. SBA Research contributed with the article “Detection of Data Leaks in Collaborative Data Driven Research” by Peter Kieseberg, Edgar Weippl and Sebastian Schrittwieser.

SBA Research @ Cyber-Physical Systems Week 2016

We will participate in the events of CPS Week 2016 (Vienna, Austria, April 11-14, 2016). On Monday (April 11), Johanna Ullrich presents our work on “The Quest for Privacy in the Consumer Internet of Things” at the International Workshop on Consumers and the Internet of Things (ConsIoT 2016). A… Read More