SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Last weekend SBA hosted the CTF Team “We_0wn_Y0u” (https://w0y.at) for another round of iCTF (International Capture the Flag), organized by UCSB. After a bumpy start, they were able to secure the 2nd place in the competition. Congratulations also to Bushwhackers and [SPbCTF] Kappa, for scoring 1st… Read More
Rethink Cybersecurity (hosted by SBA and Anovis) took place on March 14, 2019 as a co event of the 2019 Vienna Cyber Security Week. The session brought together over one hundred decision makers in business, research and government. The agenda featured a total of eight talks and panels on… Read More
Alexei Zamyatin has a talk on “Decentralized Mining Pools: Security and Attacks” accepted at the Breaking Bitcoin Conference. The 2019 conference takes place in Amsterdam, from 8-9 June. Read More
You are cordially invited to join Ulrich Habock´s talk on Friday, March 15, 4:00 pm @ SBA Research. Title: Anonymous Credentials for the Cloud, Revisited. Abstract: In an attribute-based credential (ABC) sys- tem, users obtain a digital certificate on their personal attributes, and can later prove possession of… Read More
Cyber attacks are all over the media and keep putting Austria´s digitization at risk. Global cyber crime and digital insecurities affect society and economy. Who will defend our connected systems in the future, and how will a possible defense look like? How can cyber security be implemented in order to… Read More
Over 100 software developers received a good amount of practical advice at the first edition of sec4dev conference + bootcamp. Above all they learned how to include security in their process from day 1. Futurezone article on sec4dev 2019
Hamza Abusalah has an SBA paper accepted at Eurocrypt 2019 taking place in Darmstadt, Germany from May 19-23, 2019.Paper: Reversible Proofs of Sequential Work We are also excited to announce that the paper “XCLAIM: Trustless, Interoperable Cryptocurrency-Backed Assets” by Alexei Zamyatin is accepted at IEEE S&P… Read More
The first edition of sec4dev conference + bootcamp was hosted at TU Campus Gußhaus from February 25 -27, 2019 and welcomed more than 100 participants. After two all day bootcamps on Monday, the single track conference was kicked off on Tuesday morning with a keynote from Markus Sabadello on Decentralized… Read More
CONCORDIA is a major H2020 consortium to interconnect Europe’s Cybersecurity capabilities. It will establish a pilot for a Cybersecurity Competence Network and will lead the development of a common Cybersecurity Research & Innovation Roadmap for Europe. Press release
The sec4dev 2019 conference has officially started. The first day´s agenda was filled up with two all day boot camps. Thomas Konrad´s (SBA) participants learned how to hack themselves in the “Hack Yourself: Hands-On-Web Application Security from an Attacker´s perspective” boot camp. Philippe de Ryck (Pragmatic Web Security) introduced “A… 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. ... ∞