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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:

Edgar Weippl: ZIB Magazin Interview

Whether and how the cell phone listens in The phenomenon that you talk about something and then you get on your smartphone the appropriate advertising on the topic. “ZIB Magazin” took a look at whether and how cell phones listen in. Edgar Weippl, research director of SBA Research and full… Read More

MATRIS @MARBLE 2023

On the 13th of July, Marlene Koelbing from the DEFSYS team of MATRIS attended the 4th International Conference on Mathematical Research and Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) for a talk about a paper on a mathematical approach to the use of integer partitions for… Read More
MATRIS @MARBLE 2023

SBA @Young Digital Law 2023

On July 6, the 3rd Conference of the Research Network Young Digital Law took place, which was co-organized by the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law, the Research Platform Governance of Digital Practices, and the Research Group Security and Privacy at the University of Vienna. Read More
SBA @Young Digital Law 2023

Plenary Talk @DoD 2023

On the 5th of July, Dimitris Simos gave a plenary talk on “Disaster scenarios with discrete sequences: Using combinatorics for enhanced disaster preparedness” at the 6th International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters (DoD 2023). Klaus Kieseberg and… Read More
Plenary Talk @DoD 2023

On the Applicability of Quantum Machine Learning

This article shows the applicability of both classical and quantum machine learning algorithms on several data sets. Here, the authors developed one of the data sets based on quantum mechanical symmetry properties. The results show that classical machine learning algorithms still perform best in terms of accuracy and runtime, even… Read More

Professor Lucia Moura visited MATRIS Research Group

Professor Lucia Moura from the University of Ottawa, Canada, visited the MATRIS Research Group for two days focusing on research discussion and mutual exchange, from the 29th-30th of June 2023. Prof. Moura is a distinguished researcher in the… Read More
Professor Lucia Moura visited MATRIS Research Group

SBA @Troopers 2023

On June 29, Martin Grottenthaler attended the Troopers conference in Heidelberg to present on vulnerabilities in Windows environments. The two-and-a-half-day conference featured talks on attack and defense strategies, Active Directory/Windows, and several other general topics. The keynote address was delivered by Mikko… Read More

Johanna Ullrich on Radio Ö1

On national radio, our key researcher Dr. Johanna Ullrich discussed the topic of state observation, its legal and technical implications together with Dr. Christof Tschohl, Scientific Director of Centre for Digital Human Rights. The recording of the live show is available here: https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20230628/723315/Sicherheit-durch-Ueberwachung-Sicherheit-vor-Ueberwachung