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SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Upcoming Events:

SBA @ SALZ 2026
11.03.2026
Machine Learning – Security, Privacy & Legal Aspects
12.03.2026
SBA @ BOB2026
13.03.2026

Recent News:

SBA sponsored the first Security related FreeBSD Hackathon

This weekend SBA Research sponsored the first security related FreeBSD Hackathon! FreeBSD hackers from seven countries met to harden FreeBSD, improve documentation and discuss new features. Beside that, attendees got to know each other better (i.e. matching IRC nick names to faces) and had a lot of fun!… Read More

Security Incident? Back to the Future please!

Stefan Jakoubi speaks about detection, response and recovery, common sense, regulations and standards at “Situational Awareness in IT – Compulsory or Secondary?” on June 26, 2019. Agenda and Details

Jovan Zivanovic@ AST 2019

Jovan Zivanovic from SBA’s MaTRIS research group (https://matris.sba-research.org/) attended the 14th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (http://ast2019.isti.cnr.it), in conjunction with ICSE 2019. Jovan Zivanovic presents the paper ‘Automated Combinatorial Testing for Detecting SQL Vulnerabilities in Web Applications (Dimitris E. Simos (SBA Research),… Read More

Kaspersky Cyber Day and Machine Learning Workshop

SBA hosted the Kaspersky Cyber Day at TU Wien on May 28. After a revealing lecture on some of the history´s most famous hacks participants challenged each other in the battle for the KIPS champion title. In addition to the cyber day Kaspersky conducted a deeply technical workshop on machine… Read More

Adrian Dabrowski @ Austrian Computer Science Day 2019

The Austrian Computer Science Day (ACSD) [1] is an annual assembly that brings together computer scientists across Austria from different universities and research centers to improve visibility of the field and foster collaboration in research and teaching. For the first time, a selected group of “Young Experts” was invited to… Read More

Joint NIST SBA Combinatorial Testing Research Achievements featured in Security Now Podcast

Episode 712 @ 41:53 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB_FoFZot50&t=2513) of “Security Now” podcast by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte featured the recent joint research achievements of NIST and SBA Research on Combinatorial Testing (CT), which have been officially been announced at https://www.sba-research.org/2019/05/02/combinatorial-testing-methods-can-increase-confidence-in-high-risk-software/ Steve highlights the recently achieved results not only as… Read More

Twitter: Emotion Exchange Motifs

Mark Strembeck, key researcher at SBA Research, and his team analyzed data of over 1.3 million anonymized twitter users. They found that social bots cannot be detected in Twitter communication. Full paper here.
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Ludwig Kampel @ LION13

Ludwig Kampel joined the 13th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference (LION13), a conference aiming to explore the intersections and unknown territories between machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming and algorithms for hard optimization problems. On the first day of the conference Ludwig presented the paper “How to use Boltzmann Machines… Read More