SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our Decentralized Systems Group and Edgar Weippl organized together with Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University – Fairfax, US), Stefan Katzenbeisser (TU Darmstadt, DE) and Volkmar Lotz (SAP Labs France – Mougins, FR) the Dagstuhl Seminar on Blockchains, Smart… Read More
Dimitris Simos (SBA Research) and Rick Kuhn (NIST) are presenting a crash course on combinatorial security testing at the Symposium and Bootcamp for Hot Topics in the Science of Security (HotSoS ’18). The event takes place at Raleigh, NC, USA and is sponsored by the NSA in cooperation… Read More
The paper “A Wild Velvet Fork Appears! Inclusive Blockchain Protocol Changes in Practice” by Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter, Aljosha Judmayer, Philipp Schindler, Edgar Weippl and William J. Knottenbelt, in cooperation with the Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering (IC3RE), was presented at the 5th Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain… Read More
Johanna Ullrich finally got her PhD officially awarded sub auspiciis Praesidentis in presence of the Austrian president Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen. This type of promotion is the highest honor for achievement, and the laureates receive a gold ring from the president. The tradition dates back to the 17th… Read More
At the 13th Haifa Verification Conference [HVC], Bernhard Garn was presenting a tool demo [KERIS] for the accepted paper “KERIS: A CT Tool of the Linux Kernel with Dynamic Memory Analysis Capabilities” (Bernhard Garn, Fabian Würfl, and Dimitris E. Simos). HVC is organized by IBM Research… Read More
Today at the 13th Haifa Verification Conference [HVC] Dimitris Simos is invited to give a tutorial on Combinatorial Security Testing. HVC is organized by IBM Research Haifa. … Read More
Dimitris Simos is invited to the Faculty of Engineering, University of Bergamo, Italy from May 22 to June 5 as visiting scholar. The host is Prof. Angelo Gargantini.
Our paper ‘“I Have No Idea What I’m Doing” – On the Usability of Deploying HTTPS’ has been accepted for publication at the USENIX Security Symposium 2017, to take place in Vancouver this August. 85 out of 522 submissions (acceptance rate 16%) have been accepted. Kudos to Katharina and Willi!… Read More
On May 11, Edgar Weippl talks about research challenges and research methods in applied information security at the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2017) in Brighton, UK. Read More
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. ... ∞