SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
We are happy to announce that our SBA2 proposal has been accepted by the jury. The research grants enable us to continue our research till 2014. German press releases can be found at APA and FFG.
On November 7 2009 16:27 – 00:00 Secure Business Austria hosts an information security-specific program at Lange Nacht der Forschung. The program comprises live demonstrations and awareness training in the fields of wireless security, password security, social engineering, privacy, lockpicking, mobile storage security, credit card fraud, and digital… Read More
Stefan Fenz will hold a four week IT security course at the 2009 Konkuk University International Summer Program. Konkuk University, is one of the leading private universities in Korea, generally regarded as one of the top 10 universities in Korea out of over 370 universities and colleges.
Prof. Maria Damiani gave a talk on “Spatio-temporal access control: state-of-the-art and open issues”. Abstract In the last few years, a number of spatial and spatio-temporal access control models have been developed in the framework of pervasive computing and location-based services. The distinguishing feature of those models is… Read More
General Manager of SBA Markus Klemen about secure ways to browse the internet. Download » SBA Geschäftsführer Markus Klemen über sicheres Surfen. Download »… Read More
The joint PhD seminar of Prof. Lopez-Muñoz’ research Lab and Secure Business Austria was a great success. A new research cooperation in the area of “Security for Critical Information Infrastructure” and in improvements in malware detections may follow. Das Forschungsseminar… Read More
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. ∞
New paper “Send and Pretend: Exploiting Transcript Consistency Issues in End-to-End Encrypted Group Chats”, was recently accepted for the 35th USENIX Security Symposium. The paper is a collaboration between SBA, the University of Vienna, and the Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (IT:U). It was authored by Gabriel K. Gegenhuber, Moritz Grefner, Maximilian Günther, Matthäus Wininger, David Schmidt, and Aljosha Judmayer. ∞