SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Dimitris Simos chairs the Sixth International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2017) on March 13, 2017. He is also giving a talk on “Combinatorial Methods for Modelling Composed Software Systems” (joint with Ludwig Kampel and Bernhard Garn). IWCT 2017 takes place in Tokyo, Japan and is collocated with… Read More
Today starts the Android Security Symposium at the Technical University of Vienna, courtesy of the Josef Ressel Center u’smile. The upcoming three days are packed with presentations surrounding the entire Android security ecosystem, ranging from presentations about the security architecture of Android by Google and AT&T right this morning,… Read More
Last weekend, the SBA-supported CTF team “We_0wn_Y0u” (W0Y) of the TU Wien again showcased its outstanding capabilities. In the academic International Capture the Flag (iCTF) contest they secured the third place out of 78 participating universities worldwide in an 8-hour race. W0Y started receiving points late in the… Read More
FM4 is broadcasting parts of the “myth-buster”-session “Hollywood Hacking by SBA Research”, created by Adrian Dabrowski. Every now and then, a movie excerpt is aired to give an amusing rollercoaster ride through the ups and downs of screenwriters imagination on computer security. James Bond, Independence Day, Jurassic Park and Matrix… Read More
Sebastian Schrittwieser’s Josef Ressel Center for Unified Threat Intelligence on Targeted Attacks (TARGET) successfully passed the mid-term evaluation and SBA Research hopes to join the research project in the next few months. Congratulation to the excellent presentations!… Read More
Zeeshan Ali Khan, an ERCIM Postdoc Fellow with the Department of Telematics of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), gave a talk on “Trust Management for securing the IoT networks”. Abstract This event is hosted by the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter. Read More
In the context of the ERCIM Research Exchange Programme, SBA Research is hosting between February 23 and March 1, 2017 Dr. Zeeshan Ali Khan. Zeeshan is an ERCIM Postdoc Fellow with the Department of Telematics of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) working under the… Read More
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. ... ∞