SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The Team “We_0wn_Y0u”, consisting of members of iseclab and SBA Research, has won the second place in the iCTF which took place last Friday (see scoreboard). “Critial infrastructure” was the theme, and the scenario was completely different to previous years. In total, nine services had to be attacked and defended… Read More
In an advertisement of bmvit and FFG in the newspaper “Heute” Katharina’s internship is listed as a successful example for the promotion of women. Subsequent to the internship her employment continued on a permanent basis and she began working on her dissertation. Within the cooperation with the NII Katharina is… Read More
Sebastian Schrittwieser presented a talk on ethics in computer security research at the Chaos Communication Congress (29c3) in Hamburg. You can watch the recording on Youtube. Read More
Towards a Secure DNS (Dec 13, 2pm, SBA) Most caching DNS resolvers still rely for their security, against poisoning, on validating that the DNS responses contain some ‘unpredictable’ values, copied from the request. These values include the 16 bit identifier field, and other fields, randomised and validated by different… Read More
The last FemTech internships were very successful. The work of Katharina Krombholz led to a journal publication (‘Fake Identities in Social Media – A case study on the sustainability of the Facebook business model’) which was adopted by Springer Journal of Service Science Research.
On 09/11/2012 SBA Research presents at the IT-SeCX an der FH St. Pölten. at FH St. Pölten. Sebastian Schrittwieser talks about “WhatsApp and Co.: Attack Vectors in Smartphone Messengers”. … Read More
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our researchers, who were recognized at the University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science's Best-of-the-Best Awards on June 24. ∞
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. ... ∞