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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:

SHECURITY – Hackerinnen Training
28.05.2025
SBA @ IDSF 2025
04.06.2025 - 06.06.2025
Kubernetes Attack and Defense Wizardry with Stormcenter
11.06.2025 - 13.06.2025

Recent News:

Cybercrime Busters: About CERTs and the cybercriminals of Vienna

At this event, organized by the OCG Forum Privacy and the OCG-working group IT-security, the project consortium presents three significant results of the KIRAS project CERT-Komm II. This project, for the federal chancellery of Austria, consists of SBA Research as the consortium leader and the following project partners: University of Vienna,… Read More

SBA Research among partners of Austrian lead project IoT4CPS

IoT4CPS will develop guidelines, methods and tools to enable safe and secure IoT-based applications for automated driving and for smart production. The project will address safety and security aspects in a holistic approach both along the specific value chains and the product life cycles.   Click here… Read More

Botnets and Electrical Grids

Heise picked up on our recent ACSAC Paper. DerStandard.at also reads Heise. Gamestar.de and Ad-hoc-news.de also published articles. Summary on futurezone.at. The paper “Grid Shock: Coordinated Load-Change Attacks on Power Grids” by Adrian Dabrowski, Johanna Ullrich, and Edgar Weippl was recently presented at the 2017 Annual Computer… Read More

Empirical Research for Software Security

Our new book on empirical research for software security is available. Empirical Research for Software Security: Foundations and Experience, Lotfi ben Othmane, Martin Gilje Jaatun, Edgar Weippl (eds), CRC Press, ISBN 9781498776417. Read More

SBA Research @ WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018!

We are happy to announce that SBA Research is hosting the security track „Private and Secure Development“ of WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018, the biggest development conference in Europe (Twitter). We are supporting WeAreDevelopers with our information security and secure development experience. Read More

Securing the Internet, One HTTP 200 OK at a Time

HTTPS is the most commonly used cryptographic protocol on the Internet. It protects communication content and provides endpoint authenticity at scale. However, deploying HTTPS in a truly secure fashion can be a challenging task even for experienced admins. To explore why this is the case and how these challenges can… Read More

RIPE article on IPv6 addressing

Johanna Ullrich has contributed a post on IPv6 Address Security and Privacy to RIPE Labs. For the full article please see here.

Unique Fingerprint for each Computer

Sebastian Schrittwieser (SBA Research) works on faster identification of cyber attacks by making the hacking process more obvious. Schrittwieser and his team are designing highly complex program codes in order to prevent damage. Full article