SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Dimitris Simos joined the NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Programme and will contribute to the software module testing group. The main goals of the programme are to research and identify best practices for crypto module testing as well as write specifications for automated testing.
Security Rockstars 2016 is the European sequel to the Austrian start-up competition Start Secure 2015. The competition’s goal is to find and support innovative ideas and solutions in the area of Information Security. Submission deadline for proposals is 15 July 2016. Apply now here: http://www.securityrockstars.com/ The final pitch takes place in… Read More
We are proud to announce that the ITEA2-action DIAMONDS where SBA Research participated through the MobseTip project received the prestigious EUREKA-award. For more information on relevant project aspects please contact Dimitris Simos.
Tomek defended his PhD thesis “Verification and Validation of Scientific Workflow Re-executions” successfully and graduated with distinction. Congratulations!… Read More
We will participate in the events of CPS Week 2016 (Vienna, Austria, April 11-14, 2016). On Monday (April 11), Johanna Ullrich presents our work on “The Quest for Privacy in the Consumer Internet of Things” at the International Workshop on Consumers and the Internet of Things (ConsIoT 2016). A… Read More
Katharina Krombholz has been interviewed about talent promotion for an APA Science Dossier with the title “Ein Praktikum als Türöffner in die Forschung”. The complete article can be found here.
The paper “’Weight Distribution of the Syndrome of Linear Codes and Connections to Combinatorial Designs” by Christoph Pacher (AIT), Philipp Grabenweger (AIT) and Dimitris Simos (SBA Research) has been accepted for publication in the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) which takes place from July, 10th-15th, 2016 in… Read More
Dimitris Simos is invited to Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz on 4 April 2016 to give a colloquium talk at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) in Hagenberg. Colloquium announcement see here. Title: Information Security through Combinatorial Designs and Symbolic Computation: Recent Results and Challenges Ahead Abstract: In last 50 years,… Read More
Sebastian Schrittwieser, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Johannes Kinder, Georg Merzdovnik and Edgar Weippl. Protecting software through obfuscation: Can it keep pace with progress in code analysis? ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), accepted for publication, 2016.
Our Tutorial ‘Cryptographic Currencies Crash Course‘ (Aljosha Judmayer, Edgar Weippl) has been accepted at WWW2016. We also have a workshop on empirical research methods at the conference.
From September 19 to 21, around 65 talented and curious women and FINTA* immersed themselves in the exciting world of cybersecurity at the University of Vienna. This continuing education and networking program is unique in Europe and is designed to make it easier to enter and advance in IT security. ... ∞
The 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2025) took center stage in Ghent, Belgium, from August 11-14, 2025, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. Co-located with ARES 2025 was the 8th International Symposium for Industrial Control System & SCADA Cyber Security Research.... ∞