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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:

IMPACT 2025
14.10.2025
SBA @ Embedded Austria No. 5: Security – Regulations, Norms and Tooling
14.10.2025
Shecurity & SHE@ISACA
17.10.2025

Recent News:

Johanna Ullrich @ IETF99

Johanna Ullrich is attending the Meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF99) in Prague at the moment. On Wednesday, she gave a talk presenting her survey on IPv6 security and privacy vulnerabilties. The survey can be found here. Read More

Letitia Kernschmidt @ CMU

Letitia Kernschmidt spent last semester at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She took several courses and enjoyed in particular the course on Information Security Policy and Management. It focused on the non-technical aspects of information security such as product liability laws, cyber-insurance, data- breach notification laws, and regulations about minimum security… Read More

#FF for @SBA_Prime

We are proud to announce that we have created a new Twitter feed, @SBA_prime. It is a curated, low-volume infosec timeline, operated by numerous members of SBA.

Paper accepted @ MASCOTS 2017

The paper “Swimming with Fishes and Sharks: Beneath the Surface of Queue-based Ethereum Mining Pools” by Alexei Zamyatin, K. Wolter, S. Werner, C.E.A. Mulligan, P.G. Harrison and W.J. Knottenbelt was accepted for publication at the 25th IEEE International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication… Read More

IPICS 2017

Barbara Limbeck-Lilienau and Alexandra Mai attended IPICS 2017 in Greece; Edgar Weippl gave a tutorial on Blockchains, based on our book. Read More

Johanna Ullrich @ AG CYSIS Symposium

Johanna Ullrich visited the 3. AG CYSIS Symposium in Frankfurt, Germany. CYSIS is initiated by Deutsche Bahn and TU Darmstadt to develop secure railway infrastructures. At the symposium, the results of the working groups “Resilient Architectures”, “Business Continuity Management”, “Security for Safety”, and “ETCS with Security” were presented.

ERCIM News 110 published – Special theme “Blockchain Engineering”

The ERCIM News No. 110 has just been published with a special theme on “Blockchain Engineering“. SBA Research contributes two articles in this issue. The first article is by Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter and Edgar Weippl on “Bitcoin – Cryptocurrencies and Alternative Applications“. The second article… Read More

Autonomous Machines

At the Autonomous Machines World Edgar Weippl chairs a Security Cafe Session, 2.5 hours discussion on security on autonomous production machines. Read More

SBA @ CAI 2017

Today at ‘International Conference on Algebraic Informatics’ [CAI], Dimitris Simos is chairing a session on Design Theory, where Ludwig Kampel is presenting a paper titled ‘Covering Arrays as Set Covers’ (Ludwig Kampel, Bernhard Garn, and Dimitris E. Simos). CAI brings together researchers from mathematics and computer science, with topics discussed… Read More

Rowhammer’in with @lavados

We are proud to host Daniel Gruss today (website, @lavados) to show us how to rowhammer! Rowhammer is an very interesting attack that can be used to flip bits in RAM, and can be used among other things to elevate privileges. Read More