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Exploiting KeePassRPC – SBA Student finds Vulnerability

While taking a university course on security, Philipp Danzinger discovered two critical related vulnerabilities in KeePassRPC, an addon for the popular password manager KeePass. Both vulnerabilities allow a malicious web site to read and leak (unlocked) KeePass databases, while being very hard or impossible to detect, provided the KeePassRPC addon is… Read More

We_0wn_Y0u got 2nd place at ENOWARS 4

In the online attack / defense CTF competition ENOWARS4, We_0wn_Y0u got the 2nd place out of 154 teams! A big thanks to ENOFLAG and TU Berlin for hosting the event! Congratulations to all members of… Read More
capter the flag scoreboard

Philipp Schindler presents Work on HydRand at IEEE S&P 2020

Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. For the first time, the 2020 Symposium took part as a full virtual conference. Despite the challenges… Read More
Philipp Schindler presents Work on HydRand at IEEE S&P 2020

Dimitris Simos appointed as Guest Researcher with US NIST

As of March 13, 2020, Dimitris Simos holds a Guest Researcher appointment with US NIST and is affiliated with the Applied Computational Mathematics Division (ACMD) of the Information Technology Lab (ITL) [1]. In his capacity as an off-site collaborator, Dimitris will further strengthen the ties between SBA’s MATRIS group [2]… Read More

Johanna Ulrich becomes Key Researcher at SBA

Congratulations to Johanna Ulrich! Another female scientist who supports SBA Research as a Key Researcher. Her research interests include network security and cloud security, and raising awareness for security and privacy in traditional engineering. She received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and… Read More

Technology driven Resilience Workshop hosted by OCG and SBA Research

Deputy director of the Stockholm Resilience Center, Victor Galaz, opened the session with a key note on the possible social-ecological benefits of AI. After the initial introduction of the topic by Alexander Schatten (Senior Consultant) and Kevin Mallinger (Business Development Manager), the interdisciplinary participants were encouraged to discuss technological approaches… Read More
Technology driven Resilience Workshop hosted by OCG and SBA Research

SBA hosts 3rd CONCORDIA General Assembly

As partner of the CONCORDIA project SBA Research is hosting the CONCORDIA General Assembly on November 27-28, 2019 at Europahaus Wien. Find out more about the Concordia project
SBA hosts 3rd CONCORDIA General Assembly

We_0wn_Y0u CTF Team scores 9th Place at RuCTFE

We_0wn_Y0u, a CTF team comprised of SBA researchers and students/alumni of TU Wien, secured the 9th place at RuCTFE, out of almost 400 registered participants. This was made possible by the support of 40 students from the Capture the Flag SE LVA at TU Wien, despite RuCTFE being the first… Read More
We_0wn_Y0u CTF Team scores 9th Place at RuCTFE