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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:

Mini-Coaching – Shecurity, we’re taking part
03.06.2026
Hiroshima’s Message for Tech Students and Innovators Today
16.06.2026
SBA @ OWASP AppSec EU
25.06.2026 - 26.06.2026

Recent News:

Participate in our Hardware Device Study

Do you have a Yubikey or a cryptocurrency hardware wallet and want to play an active part in a research project from SBA Research to improve current methods for authenticity checks? Then please fill out our online survey (https://de.surveymonkey.com/r/YPH2FSX) and take part in a… Read More

SBA @ Blockchain Summit Austria 2019

Edgar Weippl introduced ABC AREA 1 at this year´s Anon Blockchain Summit Austria. Also Nicolas Stifter presented Echoes of the Past: Recovering Blockchain Metrics From Merged Mining (Nicholas Stifter, Philipp Schindler, Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin, Andreas Kern, Edgar Weippl). Full paperBlockchain Summit Austria 2019… Read More

Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos @HotSoS 2019 Conference

Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos from SBA’s MaTRIS research group (https://matris.sba-research.org/) join the 6th Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS) (https://cps-vo.org/group/hotsos), April 2-3 in Nashville, Tennessee. Bernhard and Dimitris also present their paper ‘Browser Fingerprinting using Combinatorial Sequence Testing’ (Bernhard Garn (SBA… Read More

Edgar Weippl to give talk at WINS Workshop

Edgar Weippl gives a talk at the Workshop: Autonomous and Remotely Operated Systems: Benefits and Challenges to Nuclear Security hosted by WINS (World Insitute for Nuclear Security) on April 3, 2019. More information… Read More

Wilfried Mayer @ PAM 2019

Wilfried Mayer presenting “Measuring Cookies and Web Privacy in a Post-GDPR World” (Adrian Dabrowski, Georg Merzdovnik, Johanna Ullrich, Gerald Sendera, Edgar Weippl) at the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) 2019 in Puerto Varas,… Read More

Bernhard Garn successfully defended his Master Thesis

Bernhard successfully defended his Master Thesis “Algebraic Methods for Experimental Design Theory” advised by Dimitris E. Simos at the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation of TU Vienna. Bernhard gave an excellent presentation.

CTF Team “We_0wn_Y0u” scores 2nd place in iCTF

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

Ulrich Habock gives Crypto Talk at SBA

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