SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
We are happy to report that SBA-K1, our main strategic research endeavor, has been granted continued funding for the period 2017-2025 under the FFG COMET (Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies) K1-Centres program line, with an intermediary evaluation in 2021. This funding will allow us to continue our successful joint… Read More
Er hoffe auf “frische und unkonventionelle Herangehensweisen an Cybersicherheitsthemen, sagte Innenminister Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) am Mittwoch bei einem Pressegespräch in Wien zu dem vom Innenministerium gemeinsam mit dem Kuratorium Sicheres Österreich (KSÖ) und SBA Research veranstalteten Start-up-Wettbewerb Security Rockstars: “Start-ups stellen andere Überlegungen an, als etablierte Betriebe.” Noch rund zwei… Read More
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
We are proud to announce that we joined the Linux Foundation Europe, further strengthening our role within the international open-source community. With this step, we are reinforcing our commitment to advancing security and resilience in digital infrastructures. ... ∞
David Schmidt, PhD student at CD-Lab AsTra, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab, and Edgar Weippl, scientific director at SBA Research and full professor for security & privacy at the University of Vienna, received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. ... ∞