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

Upcoming Events:

SHECURITY – Info Session: Overview of ISACA Certifications (with a Focus on Security)
28.04.2026
European Resilience Summit Vienna 2026
12.05.2026
ERCIM Spring Meeting
20.05.2026 - 21.05.2026

Recent News:

Mission für mehr IT-Security

Katharina Krombholz im Standard über ihre Forschung zur Verbesserung der Benutzerfreundlichkeitvon Technologien. Den Artikel gibt es hier zu lesen. Read More

Prize Competition: “Start Secure 2015”

SBA Research, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, futurezone.at and the Kuratorium Sicheres Österreich are organising a competition for IT security Start-ups and ideas for cybersecurity solutions. The deadline for submissions (in German or English) is September 30, 2015. Competition entries are to be send to redaktion@futurezone.at. A jury… Read More

Details on Internet-wide Scans from SBA

To clarify what we are scanning on the Internet, here are some details on the project and which tools we use. Most importantly: if you want your IP to be excluded from future scans, please send an email to abuse@sba-research.org. For quite some time now we scan Internet-wide for well-known… Read More

Katharina Krombholz awarded as Fem Tech Expert

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

Dimitris Simos @ INRIA

Dimitris Simos is visiting INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt during 6 – 11 July. He is hosted by the project team SECRET.

Digital Business Trends: Ja dürfen die denn das?

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

ERCIM News No. 102

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

Vienna Cyber Diplomacy Day

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

SBA Research im Standard.at: Windows Server 2003 noch auf Drittel aller Server: Support-Ende im Juli

“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