SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
ESORICS 2015 will be held in Vienna from September 21-25. SBA Research is the local organizer, Edgar Weippl serves together with Peter Y A Ryan (University of Luxembourg) as Program Chair. Submission Deadline: April 4, 2015 … Read More
For the second time in a row the Best Paper Award of the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2014) has been awarded to the researchers from SBA. In this year´s edition… Read More
SBA Research participates with three topics at the European Researchers’ Night: Security on the Internet: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagramm & Co. Hollywood Hacking: A Reality Check Digital Forensics – CSI in IT… Read More
What is Shellshock? On 24/09/2014, a security vulnerability was published as CVE-2014-6271 (also Shellshock or Bashbleed). The vulnerability is in the command line software bash which is used in practically all Linux systems as the default shell. Due to an error when parsing environment variables, it is possible to execute… Read More
ARES 2014 was held from 8 – 12 September 2014 in Fribourg, Switzerland. Thanks to 133 participants from 30 countries for participating! ARES 2014 Opening Welcome Reception Keynote Bart Preneel Tiny Train through Fribourg ARES 2014 participants… Read More
Edgar Weippl gives a keynote on Advanced Persistent Threats & Social Engineering at the 11th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2014), wich takes place from 28 – 30 August 2014 in Vienna.
Adrian Dabrowski, Martina Lindorfer and Johanna Ullrich visited the flagship conference Usenix Security Symposium, held from 20-22 August in San Diego, California. As usual, the conference hosted a variety of interesting talks covering a vast amont of different aspects in computer security. Johanna presented her paper on IPv6 Security at… Read More
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 22st ICT Security Conference on 16 and 17 September 2026, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. ∞
A new paper, “Automated Reasoning for Indistinguishability in the CCSA,” co-authored by Laura Kovács, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and Matteo Maffei, key researcher at SBA Research and Professor at TU Wien, has been accepted for presentation at the 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). ∞
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞