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:

Code. Protect. Empower. – Cybersecurity for Female Students
26.06.2026 - 27.06.2026
SBA @ BSidesVienna 0x7EA
27.06.2026
First SHECURITY Masterclass is out!
04.07.2026

Recent News:

Paper accepted at Financial Crypto 2016

Katharina Krombholz, Aljosha Judmayer, Matthias Gusenbauer and Edgar Weippl got their paper “The Other Side of the Coin: User Experiences with Bitcoin Security and Privacy” accepted at the International Conference of Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC’16) which will be held in February 2016 in Christ… Read More

iCTF 2015

Last Friday, students and faculty of SBA Research and the Vienna University of Technology participated as members of the team We_0wn_Y0u in the 2015 edition of the international capture-the-flag contest iCTF. Within 8 hours we managed to exploit 15 services, and finished 8th place with a very thrilling last-minute… Read More

Peter Kieseberg @ WS Machine Learning for Health Informatics

Today Peter Kieseberg is presenting recent research on the topic of “Fingerprinting for data leak detection“ at the Workshop on “Machine learning for health informatics” at the TU-Wien, EI 8, organized by the Holzinger Group. Further information can be found here.

Johanna Ullrich in Newton

Johanna Ullrich als Softwareexpertin in einer Folge von Newton über “Die Tricks der Motorenbauer”. Im Mittelpunkt der Sendung steht die Affäre um manipulierte VW-Motoren. Johanna erklärt unter anderem wie man sich Softwaremanipulation bei Autos vorstellen kann. Watch: (ab 10:58) Newton vom 21.11.2015… Read More

SBA Research @ ECSEL Austria Event

SBA Research presented the current research activities at the ECSEL Austria conference in Vienna. More information about the event can be found here.

SBA at BsidesVienna

Today BsidesVienna took place, a great community-driven event on computer security. The badge this year was a USB condom, to enforce secure charging of USB devices on-the-go. We were proud to support them by giving numerous presentations and as a sponsor. Read More

Cumulo/nimbusec gewinnt erste Auflage von StartSecure

Wir gratulieren ganz herzlich allen drei Gewinnern unseres Cyber Security-Wettbewerbs für Start-ups StartSecure, die gestern im Rahmen des Futurezone-Awards gekürt wurden. Ganz besonders freuen wir uns mit Cumulo/nimbusec, die über den Sieg und ein Preisgeld von 10.000 € jubeln durften. Ebenso prämiert: CyberTrap auf dem zweiten… Read More

COST-Action MPM4CPS

Last week Peter Kieseberg from SBA Research joined a meeting of the MPM4CPS COST-action in Novi Sad. The MPM4CPS action deals with multi-paradigm modelling in the area of cyber-physical systems and SBA will bring a more security-related perspective to the consortium, especially since cyber-physical systems have been identified as… Read More