SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The video presentation of the Security Afterworks Summer Special: Hacking Team Hacked? is now available on YouTube. The summer special took place on August 6, 2015 at SBA Research. More Information… Read More
The paper “Exciting FPGA Cryptographic Trojans using Combinatorial Testing” by Paris Kitsos (TEI of Western Greece and Industrial Systems Institute/RC ‘Athena’), Dimitris. E. Simos (SBA Research), Jose Torres-Jimenez (CINVESTAV-Tamaulipas) and Artemios G. Voyiatzis (SBA Research and Industrial Systems Institute/RC ‘Athena’) has been accepted for publication in the 26th IEEE International… Read More
On August 4th, 2015 Bernhard Garn presents the paper “Attack Pattern-Based Combinatorial Testing with Constraints for Web Security Testing” at the IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security 2015 (QRS 2015) . The paper is a joint work between the Graz University of Technology (J. Bozic and F. Wotawa) and SBA… Read More
Aaron Zauner presented our preliminary results on the usage of TLS in the email ecosystem at the IETF meeting last week. As part of our project TLSiP we are actively scanning the Internet (/0) for TLS configurations as well as its problems with it. As expected,… Read More
After a fruitful semester at SBA Research during his sabbatical leave between February and July 2015, Artemios G. Voyiatzis will be joining SBA Research on August 2015 and further develop our research programme. Artemios, a designated ACM Senior Member (2015), also joins the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter. With Artemios… Read More
At the Applications of Computer Algebra Conference (ACA 2015), Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos give a talk about “Algebraic Modelling of Covering Arrays”. They present a novel approach to model Covering Arrays, which are at the center of their research field Combinatorial Testing. This theoretical result can be directly used… Read More
Katharina Krombholz is currently attending SOUPS 2015 (Symposium on usable privacy and security) in Ottawa, Canada. Today, she presented a position paper at the Workshop on Inclusive Privacy and Security and participated in a panel discussion on methods.
“Die OCG hat über die Arbeit des Österreichischen Integrationsfonds den ECDL Best Practice Award in der Kategorie “ECDL in Society” gewonnen. Das zeigt, dass Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen wie ECDL und ECDL Advanced für Personen mit Migrationshintergrund von grundlegender Bedeutung sind. Sich hier als OCG in Bezug auf IT aktiv, konstruktiv und unterstützend… Read More
RC4 is no longer considered secure, and should not be used anymore according to RFC7465 (RFC draft). New attacks can be used to decipher the communication content within days, like session cookies. The past weeks we have been busy scanning more than 2 million HTTPS servers… Read More
SBA Research was delighted to welcome FFG Managing Director Karin Tausz and Head of Division Structural Programmes Silvia Laimgruber to the SBA-K1 NGC COMET Center in Vienna. ... ∞
Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... ∞
Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... ∞