SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our colleague Walid Fdhila, senior researcher and team lead at SBA Research and senior researcher at the University of Vienna at the Faculty of Computer Science, gave a talk titled Trustworthy Decentralized Digital Ecosystems, during his stay as guest professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Université de Tours, France. Read More
We are pleased to share that our colleague Walid Fdhila, senior researcher and team lead at SBA Research and senior researcher at the University of Vienna at the Faculty of Computer Science, will spend the next month as a guest professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques at Université de Tours, France. Read More
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. ... Read More
We congratulate Aljosha Judmayer to successfully defending his PhD thesis “Pay to Win – Algorithmic Incentive Manipulation Attacks on Permissionless Cryptocurrencies” and thank Rainer Böhme and Bryan Ford for their service as examiners. The digital exchange of units of financial value, commonly referred to as money,… Read More
When (Tax) Law meets Blockchain Technologies: In this book chapter we discuss the current challenges that lawmakers and technologists face when trying to find a common understanding and terminology in the context of Cryptocurrencies. Title In German: Blockchain-Babel: Herausforderungen bei der Entwicklung präziser Begrifflichkeiten zwischen Recht und Technik im Kontext… Read More
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 22st ICT Security Conference on 16 and 17 September 2026, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. ∞
A new paper, “Automated Reasoning for Indistinguishability in the CCSA,” co-authored by Laura Kovács, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and Matteo Maffei, key researcher at SBA Research and Professor at TU Wien, has been accepted for presentation at the 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). ∞
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞