SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
In the online attack / defense CTF competition ENOWARS4, We_0wn_Y0u got the 2nd place out of 154 teams! A big thanks to ENOFLAG and TU Berlin for hosting the event! Congratulations to all members of… Read More
SBA Research, the Vienna Competence Center for Information Security, will be funded for another four years within the framework of COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies Report of the FFG On 16 June 2020, the mid-term evaluation of SBA-K1, the COMET flagship research program of SBA Research, took… Read More
Security in the digital world is not only one of the main 2020 topics of the association fit4internet in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Digitalization and Business Location (BMDW), but is also centrally dealt with in the new Digital Action Plan Austria. Respective future steps were presented by the… Read More
Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. For the first time, the 2020 Symposium took part as a full virtual conference. Despite the challenges… Read More
VRVis and SBA Research are the longest-standing COMET Centers in Vienna. For this brochure, the research institutions have joined forces to provide an insight into a total of 35 years of experience, successes and challenges of innovative top-level research from Austria. Brochure in English… Read More
German version below Experts from epicenter.works, noyb.eu and SBA Research evaluated the Stopp Corona app of the Austrian Red Cross (ÖRK) with regards to data security and privacy. No critical security gaps were found, but there… Read More
As of March 13, 2020, Dimitris Simos holds a Guest Researcher appointment with US NIST and is affiliated with the Applied Computational Mathematics Division (ACMD) of the Information Technology Lab (ITL) [1]. In his capacity as an off-site collaborator, Dimitris will further strengthen the ties between SBA’s MATRIS group [2]… Read More
German version below SBA Research experts use reverse engineering to analyze the Android version of the Red Cross Stop Corona app for data security. Technical statement on the analysis. Media Coverage: Live Ticker (derstandard.at) (Mar 27) diepresse.com… Read More
We are all asked to stay home for the time being. Invest your home office time in further educating yourself with the SBA Live Academy Be sure to join in! Tuesday – Thursday from 13:00 to 13.30 live. Read More
Stay secure during Home Office. Almost overnight, most companies had to severely limit physical access to their offices. As more and more employees start working from home, connecting to their company network infrastructure, security becomes an immediate concern. Keeping IT systems up and running has never been more important than… Read More
A big thanks to all for participating in the sec4dev conference and bootcamp 2020! Due to the constantly growing number of participants at sec4dev and the great interest in our regular security MeetUps, we now reach more than 600 experts, and the trend is rising. Only through the… Read More
Congratulations to Johanna Ulrich! Another female scientist who supports SBA Research as a Key Researcher. Her research interests include network security and cloud security, and raising awareness for security and privacy in traditional engineering. She received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and… Read More
Deputy director of the Stockholm Resilience Center, Victor Galaz, opened the session with a key note on the possible social-ecological benefits of AI. After the initial introduction of the topic by Alexander Schatten (Senior Consultant) and Kevin Mallinger (Business Development Manager), the interdisciplinary participants were encouraged to discuss technological approaches… Read More
As partner of the CONCORDIA project SBA Research is hosting the CONCORDIA General Assembly on November 27-28, 2019 at Europahaus Wien. Find out more about the Concordia project… Read More
We_0wn_Y0u, a CTF team comprised of SBA researchers and students/alumni of TU Wien, secured the 9th place at RuCTFE, out of almost 400 registered participants. This was made possible by the support of 40 students from the Capture the Flag SE LVA at TU Wien, despite RuCTFE being the first… Read More