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Martina Lindorfer is awarded the 2018 Cor Baayen Award.

October 10, 2018

Martina Lindorfer was selected as the winner of the 2018 Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award. The award committee recognises Martina's impressive achievements and outstanding quality of her research in the field of systems security, especially the analysis of malicious software and mobile operating system vulnerabilities. The ceremony takes place on Oct 10 in Goteburg. Edgar Weippl was her supervisor and we are happy that after some time as a PostDoc at UC Santa Barbara she returns to Vienna on a tenure track position. Read More

Alexei Zamyatin at Scaling Bitcoins 2018

October 8, 2018

Alexei Zamyatin and Dominik Harz (Imperail College London) gave an invited talk entitled „Interoperability with Cryptocurrency-backed Tokens“ at Scaling Bitcoins 2018 in Tokyo. Slides Paper

There is no such thing as 100% security

October 8, 2018

Markus Klemen participated in the third round table (hosted by Brutkasten and A1) discussing the role of cyber security within startups. Details… Read More

NIST Grant awarded to MaTRIS research group

October 3, 2018

Computer data breaches cost companies millions of dollars each year. When combined with the damage leaks of private information do to consumers, the total cost of security issues is even greater. Many systems, including blockchains and Internet of Things systems, are created secure at the design level. However, mistakes in… Read More

SBA goes Strategy Meeting @ Europahaus Wien

October 1, 2018

In the course of a 2-day strategy meeting at the Europahaus Wien we intensively worked out new strategies and set future goals. In a great atmosphere we brainstormed in small groups and were provided with outlooks for anticipated development and projects. The stimulating yet relaxed off site setting enabled a… Read More

Outreach Activities – Volkshochschule

September 26, 2018

At the VHS Mariahilf Edgar Weippl gave a presentation ‘Vom Morris-Wurm bis WannaCry’ to offer the interested general public an insight into how information security evolved in the past decades. Read More

Guest Lecture by Markus Hittmeir ‘A babystep-giantstep method for faster deterministic integer factorization’

September 26, 2018

Markus Hittmeir gave a lecture on parts of his PhD thesis on how to improve integer factorization. Read More

Edgar Weippl at ENISA’s NIS Summer School

September 24, 2018

Edgar Weippl gives an invited talk at ENISA’s NIS Summer School 2018 in Heraklion. His talk is on Blockchains and Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Research. In addition, Edgar is on the panel on ‘Upcoming NIS Challenges from a European perspective’ representing the research view from the perspective of the presidency… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – Smarty – Trusted-Directory Bypass via Path Traversal (CVE-2018-13982)

September 18, 2018

Smarty 3.1.32 or below is prone to a path traversal vulnerability due to insufficient sanitization of code in Smarty templates. This allows attackers controlling the Smarty template to bypass the trusted directory security restriction and read arbitrary files. We recommend to update Smarty to version 3.1.33 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More

Edgar Weippl Invited Talk on Blockchains at Cryptacus Conference

September 18, 2018

After Srdjan Capkun’s opening keynote on ‘Secure Positioning and Location-Based Security’ and Bart Preneel’s presentation on ‘Challenges for Embedded Cryptography’, Edgar Weippl gave his invited talk on “Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain & Crypto Currencies – Hype & an Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Research” at the Cryptacus Conference. Read More

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