SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
A great article by Ruth Hutsteiner highlights our current research that we jointly perform with the CDL-SQI. An interview with Edgar Weippl will be broadcast in today’s ‘Wissen aktuell‘ in Ö1
Tomasz Miksa co-hosted RDA Chairs Collaboration Meeting which was held in the festive hall of the TU Wien 13-15 June 2018. Chairs representing working and interest groups met to discuss ongoing developments and to analyse future development directions. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is an international organization focused on… Read More
Yesterday at “Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference” [LION] Ludwig Kampel presented a paper titled “Combinatorial Methods for Testing Communication Protocols in Smart Cities” in the special session “Computational Intelligence for Smart Cities” ( Dimitris E. Simos, Ludwig Kampel, Murat Ozcan). This paper proposes a combinatorial method for testing the Building… Read More
Mathias Gusenbauer successfully defended his master thesis on “Bitstream – A Bottom-Up/Top-Down Approach to Data Loading for Interactive Bitcoin Visualizations” on June 4, 2018.
Kristoffer successfully defended his master’s thesis “Efficient Algorithms and Tools for Practical Combinatorial Testing” advised by Dimitris E. Simos, at the Faculty of Informatics of TU Vienna. Kristoffer gave an excellent presentation and graduated with distinction. Read More
Today, Matthias Eckhart speaks about “Towards Security-Aware Virtual Environments for Digital Twins” at the “4th ACM Workshop on Cyber-Physical System Security”, taking place at the Songdo Central Park Hotel in Incheon, South Korea. Read More
Our paper “Proof-of-Blackouts? How Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies Could Affect Power Grids” by Johanna Ullrich, Nicholas Stifter, Aljosha Judmayer, Adrian Dabrowski and Edgar Weippl has been accepted at the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID). Our work investigates whether cryptocurrencies are a threat for reliable power grid operation… Read More
Computers & Security welcomes submissions to the special issue on Security and Privacy in Smart Cyber-physical Systems. Important Dates: Submission deadline: 30 November 2018 Authors’ notification: 31 January 2019 Revisions due: 30 April 2019 Final decision: 30 June 2019 Camera ready version due: 30 September 2019 Tentative publication… Read More
Our book Blocks and Chains: Introduction to Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and Their Consensus Mechanisms (Aljosha Judmayer, Nicholas Stifter, Katharina Krombholz, Edgar Weippl) has been translated into Korean. 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. ... ∞