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One step ahead of hackers…

August 27, 2018

The computer scientists Edgar Weippl and his team calculate threat scenarios for critical infrastructure and industrial plants. The findings are used to improve protection. Read more in the DiePresse. Die Presse – printed edtion… Read More

Edgar Weippl at 2018 Alpbach Technology Symposium: EU NIS directive and NIS act – what now?

August 24, 2018

Edgar Weippl gave a presentation on Security Research in the context of NIS at Alpbach Technology Symposium’s breakout session ‘EU NIS directive and NIS act – what now?‘… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – phpWhois – PHP Code Injection (CVE-2015-5243)

August 2, 2018

phpWhois and some of its forks in versions before 5.1.0 are prone to a code injection vulnerability due to insufficient sanitization of returned WHOIS data. This allows attackers controlling the WHOIS information of a requested domain to execute arbitrary PHP code in the context of the application. We recommend to update phpWhois to version jsmitty12: 5.1.0 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More

Special Issue on Blockchain Technology and Applications in Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing

July 26, 2018

The aim of this special issue is to gather latest research results concerning blockchain technology and its application on relevant scenarios, such as the ones previously listed. Researchers, experts, and scholars from both industry and academia are encouraged to present their recent achievements and research directions in this area Manuscript… Read More

Dimitris Simos joins the editorial board of Mathematics in Computer Science

July 16, 2018

Dimitris Simos was invited to join the editorial board of the Mathematics in Computer Science (MCS) journal published and distributed by Springer. MCS publishes high-quality original research papers on the development of theories and methods for computer and information sciences, the design, implementation, and analysis of algorithms and… Read More

SoftwareentwicklerInnen für Kooperationsprojekt mit Stiwa gesucht

July 13, 2018

Für ein Kooperationsprojekt mit unserem Unternehmenspartner Stiwa suchen wir SoftwareentwicklerInnen mit Schwerpunkt .Net-Programmierung, welche im Bereich Automation arbeiten möchten. Nach Vereinbarung besteht die Möglichkeit die ausgeschriebenen Aufgaben im Rahmen von Forschungskooperationen (Masterarbeit oder Dissertation) mit SBA Research gGmbH oder der TU Wien zu übernehmen. Bewerbungen bitte an eweippl@sba-research.org und… Read More

ERCIM News Special Theme: “Digital Twins”, Edgar Weippl (guest editor)

July 10, 2018

Ercim news is seeking short articles (700-800 words) on the current topic for its special theme “Digital Twins”. This is related to our ongoing research activities in the Christian Doppler Laboratory SQI (Links zu www.sqi.at) Submission Deadline Thursday, 28 August https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/call Guest editors: Benjamin Sanderse (CWI)… Read More

Alexei Zamyatin gives talk @ Building on Bitcoin conference

July 10, 2018

Alexei Zaymatin presented “A Wild Velvet Fork Appears!” at the 2018 Building on Bitcoin conference in Lisbon. Building on Bitcoin, Lisbon 2018 Click here to watch the full presentation… Read More

Alexei Zamyatin: paper published by Royal Society

June 25, 2018

Alexei Zamyatin gets paper “Committing to quantum resistance: a slow defence for Bitcoin against a fast quantum computing attack” published by the Royal Society. Full paper He also gives a talk on velvet forks at the Building on Bitcoin conference next week. More information… Read More

Virtual Currency Conference @ Europol

June 21, 2018

Two very insightful days on Crypto-Currencies, law enforcement and illegal markets. Edgar Weippl participated as member of the Europol’s EC3 Academic Advisor Network. Read More

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