SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
On July 6th, as part of the TU Wien course “Digitale Kompetenzen @ Parlament”, our Key Researchers Martina Lindorfer and Johanna Ullrich gave lectures for members and staff of the Austrian parliament. They covered the topics security, networks and cyber-physical systems. … Read More
Today, Klaus Kieseberg of the MATRIS research group presented the paper “On the applicability of combinatorial methods to disaster exercise generation”, a joint work between Bernhard Garn, Klaus Kieseberg, Dominik Schreiber and Dimitris E. Simos (all MATRIS… Read More
SBA and AIT are hosting the workshop “Is this you? Identity and Authenticity in the Digital Age” at the annual CODE conference of the Bundeswehr University Munich on the 21st July 2021 (09:30-12:30). The CODE Annual Conference is an excellent medium for presenting current scientific developments to a… Read More
Johanna Ullrich (SBA Research) and Otmar Lendl (CERT.at) were guests in “Punkt Eins” (Ö1) and answered questions from the audience. Cybercrime is increasing in quantity as well as quality, and everyone who is connected via the Internet may… Read More
Rudolf Mayer, head of our Machine Learning and Data Management Group (MLDM), is one of the guest editors of ERCIM News’ current issue on privacy-preserving computation. He and his team also contributed an article about WellFort, a… Read More
Within just one week, Michael Wagner attended IWOCA2021 and the 2021 World Congress on Global Optimization (WCGO 2021). Scientists, engineers, mathematicians and practitioners from a variety of related disciplines exchanged ideas and presented original research results in the theory and applications of… Read More
Stephanie Jakoubi, SBA’s Head of Strategic Partner Management, has collected 200 inspiring stories from women in IT. We are also proud to welcome our 56th FEMtech intern and are piloting a new initiative for female STEM students. Read more here (in German). Read More
In this episode of the podcast Zukunft Denken, Alexander Schatten talks about deep fakes. He discusses the historical background of technical innovations, how essential information was conveyed before the 20th century and where we are heading today. He is asking the question what Deep… Read More
The 15th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION15), hosted by SBA Research, is currently taking place as all-digital conference. Panos Pardalos (General Chair), Dimitris E. Simos (TPC Chair) and Ilias Kotsireas (Local Organizing Chair) are welcoming contributors from 29 countries and are happy… Read More
In an interview with Mayrs Magazin – the new ORF science magazine – Edgar Weippl talks about the possibility of intercepting encrypted communications, using the example of the current investigative success with regard to the messenger app Anom. The broadcast is available for 6 days… Read More
We are proud to announce that we joined the Linux Foundation Europe, further strengthening our role within the international open-source community. With this step, we are reinforcing our commitment to advancing security and resilience in digital infrastructures. ... ∞
David Schmidt, PhD student at CD-Lab AsTra, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab, and Edgar Weippl, scientific director at SBA Research and full professor for security & privacy at the University of Vienna, received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. ... ∞