SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
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
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
The Josef Ressel Center for Unified Threat Intelligence on Targeted Attacks (TARGET) is being expanded in its third year. A new module is added, which is executed SBA Research, an external partner from Vienna, and the existing modules scope is extended. Georg Merzdovnik and Edgar Weippl work on security aspects… Read More
Markus Klemen gives the keynote speech “Employee Loyalty – a Feasible Goal?” at the (ISC)² Secure Summit DACH in Zürich today. Further details can be found here.
Artemios G. Voyiatzis is representing SBA Research at the Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings on Digital Forensics (DF) and Teaching/Learning (TL) of the EU-funded project “Strengthening European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime” (SENTER). The meetings take place on June 26-27, 2017 in Esslingen, Germany.
Our book on blockchains has just been published: Blocks and Chains: Introduction to Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and Their Consensus Mechanisms. Aljosha Judmayer, Nicholas Stifter, Katharina Krombholz, and Edgar Weippl… Read More
Adrian Dabrowski is today at the ETSI in Sophia Antipolis, presenting at the ETSI 5G Security workshop, part of the Security Week at ETSI. You can find the Agenda here.
We are proud to announce that we joined the Linux Foundation Europe, further strengthening our role within the international open-source community. With this step, we are reinforcing our commitment to advancing security and resilience in digital infrastructures. ... ∞
David Schmidt, PhD student at CD-Lab AsTra, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab, and Edgar Weippl, scientific director at SBA Research and full professor for security & privacy at the University of Vienna, received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. ... ∞