SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Philipp Schindler (SBA Research) will present our new paper at NDSS 2021 this year! RandRunner: Distributed Randomness from Trapdoor VDFs with Strong Uniqueness. Philipp Schindler, Aljosha Judmayer, and Markus Hittmeir (SBA Research); Nicholas Stifter (SBA Research, TU Wien); Edgar Weippl (SBA Research, Universität Wien) Abstract: Generating randomness collectively has been… Read More
SBA Research is proud to be part of the ERA-NET consortium for the LivestockSense research project. Thomas Neubauer (Key Researcher at SBA Research) and Kevin Mallinger (Business Development Manager at SBA Research) are supporting the project to (1)… Read More
SBA Research is happy to announce that our Qualification Network training program on Secure Software Development has been granted by the FFG. Beyond Coding – Software-Entwicklung der Zukunft – focuses on two key competencies of software developers of the future (i) mastering the complexity… Read More
Christian Kudera (SBA Research) recently gave an interview on his research project AutoHoney(I)IoT to DiePresse, in which he focuses on IT-security related challenges arising from “Internet of Things” (IoT) and “Industrial Internet of Things” (IIoT) networks. Read the full article &… Read More
SecurityTwins – Digital Twins for Cyber-Physical Threat Detection & Response – is a BRIDGE 1 Cooperative R&I project with three partner from academia and industry (Condignum, ENRAG and University of Vienna… Read More
Made for the makers! The 2021 edition of the sec4dev conference (22-25 Feb´21) comes with numerous exciting topics and special sessions. Addressed areas will cover application security, security testing & automation, cloud & container, machine learning & AI security and much more. As… Read More
Kevin Mallinger, Johanna Ullrich and Alexander Schatten (all SBA Research) wrote an article on the potentials and challenges of IoT-systems for the OVE-Newsletter in December, in which Mario Drobics (OVE-working group lead & Head of Competence Unit Cooperative Digital Technologies… Read More
The ÖFG Magazine (#1, 2020, p14) published an article on our working group on Security & Privacy in Digital Transformation. Read the full article! Background The ÖFG Working Group on Digital Transformation: Safety, Safety, Security… Read More
Edgar Weippl (research director, SBA Research) was interviewed on planned measures against secure end-to-end encryption published by the Council of the European Union. The resolution issued by the EU Council will give member states more legal competences to access communications protected by end-to-end… Read More
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. ... ∞
Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... ∞