SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
On February 19, Gabriel Gegenhuber successfully passed his Rigorosum with excellent evaluations, defending his dissertation "Democratizing Measurement of Critical Mobile Infrastructure: Security and Privacy in an Increasingly Centralized Communication Ecosystem" before the committee and PhD supervisor Johanna Ullrich. ... Read More
On February 19, Florian Holzbauer successfully completed his Rigorosum, receiving excellent evaluations.
He successfully defended his dissertation, “Turning Failure into Knowledge: Extending the Observable Internet by Leveraging Delivery Failures,” before the committee and Florian’s PhD thesis supervisor Johanna Ullrich. ... Read More
On Monday, October 9, 2023, Bernhard successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled ‘Design Theory Methods and their Applications to the Science of Security’ in his defensio. The committee was chaired by Martina Lindorfer (TU Wien) and in addition consisted of Edgar Weippl (University of Vienna), Rachel… Read More
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. ... ∞