SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Members of SBA Research are at Ruhrsec, happening today and tomorrow in Bochum. You can find the program here and might follow @Fr333k for live updates. Read More
Last Sunday, students and faculty of SBA Research and TU Wien participated in the 2017 RuCTF Finals competition held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as members of the team We_0wn_Y0u. Students are primarily recruited from our “(Advanced) Internet Security” lecture series which is taught together with the Secure Systems Lab of TU… Read More
Martin Schmiedecker passed the exam to become a certified expert witness for the judicial system, for the areas of digital forensics (68.62) and computer security (68.60). Congratulations!
Scientific director Edgar Weippl has been interviewed by Austrian Broadcasting (ORF) radio channel OE1 on how to cope with password issues. The abstract of the interview can be found at www.orf.at, mobile version here.
Tomasz Miksa co-authored a whitepaper on machine-actionable data management plans (maDMPs). The whitepaper was used to seed the discussions at the 9th RDA Plenary in Barcelona, Spain and will lead to the establishment of new RDA groups. The paper is published in the open-access Research Ideas and Outcomes… Read More
The ERCIM News No. 109 has just been published at with a special theme on “Autonomous Vehicles“. SBA Research contributes two articles in the “Research and Innovation” section of the issue. The first article is by Peter Kieseberg, Peter Frühwirt, and Sebastian Schrittwieser on “Security Testing for Mobile… Read More
Members of SBA Research are at the Hagenberg IT Security Forum 2017. Peter Kieseberg will present about Security in Industry 4.0 and IoT. The description of his talk can be found here. See also the full agenda. Read More
Last Thursday, Katharina Krombholz visited Srdjan Capkun’s group at ETH Zurich and gave a talk on her research in usable security and privacy in the course of the ZISC lunch time seminar series. The abstract of her talk can be found here. Read More
Numerous members of SBA Research are at TROOPERS17, happening this week in Heidelberg. You can find the agenda here. If you spot one of us, chat us up!
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. ... ∞