SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our Decentralized Systems Group and Edgar Weippl organized together with Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University – Fairfax, US), Stefan Katzenbeisser (TU Darmstadt, DE) and Volkmar Lotz (SAP Labs France – Mougins, FR) the Dagstuhl Seminar on Blockchains, Smart… Read More
The paper “A Wild Velvet Fork Appears! Inclusive Blockchain Protocol Changes in Practice” by Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter, Aljosha Judmayer, Philipp Schindler, Edgar Weippl and William J. Knottenbelt, in cooperation with the Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering (IC3RE), was presented at the 5th Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain… Read More
Dimitris Simos is invited to the Faculty of Engineering, University of Bergamo, Italy from May 22 to June 5 as visiting scholar. The host is Prof. Angelo Gargantini.
Our paper ‘“I Have No Idea What I’m Doing” – On the Usability of Deploying HTTPS’ has been accepted for publication at the USENIX Security Symposium 2017, to take place in Vancouver this August. 85 out of 522 submissions (acceptance rate 16%) have been accepted. Kudos to Katharina and Willi!… Read More
On May 11, Edgar Weippl talks about research challenges and research methods in applied information security at the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2017) in Brighton, UK. 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
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
Better late than never: late last year already, Katharina defended her PhD thesis and graduated with distinction. Her thesis is substantial for the field of usable security and privacy. It spans user-centric research on a variety of topics such as smartphone authentication, Bitcoin and its user expectations, and TLS deployments. Read More
Numerous members of SBA are at the CCC Congress in Hamburg. 33C3 takes place from December 27 – 30, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany and is the biggest non-commercial hacker conference worldwide with more than 11.000 people attending ever year. Martin Schmiedecker gives a talk on “Everything you always wanted to… 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. ∞