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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:

Machine Learning – Security, Privacy & Legal Aspects
12.03.2026
SBA @ BOB2026
13.03.2026
OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup x SBA Security Meetup
31.03.2026

Recent News:

Best Paper Award for our paper Shimon Machida, Adrian Dabrowski, Edgar Weippl, and Isao Echizen. PrivacyTag: A community-based method for protecting privacy of photographed subjects in online social networks

Shimon Machida, Adrian Dabrowski, Edgar Weippl, and Isao Echizen. PrivacyTag: A community-based method for protecting privacy of photographed subjects in online social networks. In 16th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e- Business, e-Services and e-Society, pages 261–275. Springer LNCS, 11 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68557-1 24, best paper award. The paper… Read More

SBA at BSidesVienna 2017

Adrian Dabrowski presented his talk ‘A Song of Botnets and Power: Blackout is coming’ at BSidesVienna.          … Read More

Tomasz Miksa on the RDA DMP Common Standards at the University of Cambridge

Tomasz Miksa presented recent developments of the Research Data Alliance working group on common standards for machine-actionable data management plans during a conference on “Engaging Researchers in Good Data Management” that was organised jointly by the University of Cambridge, SPARC Europe, and JISC. To learn more on the… Read More

MACIS 2017 organized by SBA Research

The Seventh International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences (MACIS 2017) was held at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, from November 15-17, 2017.                        After an oldtimer tramtour the participants around general… Read More

Congratulations: Blockchain-Masters

Today Alexei Zamyatin defended his Master’s thesis “Merged Mining: Analysis of Effects and Implications” and Philipp Schindler his Master’s thesis “Randomness for Blockchains Generating Publicly-Verifiable and Bias-Resistant Randomness in Decentralized Systems” successfully. Congratulations!… Read More

Bernhard Garn presenting tool demo at HVC

At the 13th Haifa Verification Conference [HVC], Bernhard Garn was presenting a tool demo [KERIS] for the accepted paper “KERIS: A CT Tool of the Linux Kernel with Dynamic Memory Analysis Capabilities” (Bernhard Garn, Fabian Würfl, and Dimitris E. Simos). HVC is organized by IBM Research… Read More