SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
ESORICS 2015 will be held in Vienna from September 21-25. SBA Research is the local organizer, Edgar Weippl serves together with Peter Y A Ryan (University of Luxembourg) as Program Chair. Submission Deadline: April 4, 2015 … Read More
For the second time in a row the Best Paper Award of the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2014) has been awarded to the researchers from SBA. In this year´s edition… Read More
SBA Research participates with three topics at the European Researchers’ Night: Security on the Internet: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagramm & Co. Hollywood Hacking: A Reality Check Digital Forensics – CSI in IT… Read More
What is Shellshock? On 24/09/2014, a security vulnerability was published as CVE-2014-6271 (also Shellshock or Bashbleed). The vulnerability is in the command line software bash which is used in practically all Linux systems as the default shell. Due to an error when parsing environment variables, it is possible to execute… Read More
ARES 2014 was held from 8 – 12 September 2014 in Fribourg, Switzerland. Thanks to 133 participants from 30 countries for participating! ARES 2014 Opening Welcome Reception Keynote Bart Preneel Tiny Train through Fribourg ARES 2014 participants… Read More
Edgar Weippl gives a keynote on Advanced Persistent Threats & Social Engineering at the 11th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2014), wich takes place from 28 – 30 August 2014 in Vienna.
Adrian Dabrowski, Martina Lindorfer and Johanna Ullrich visited the flagship conference Usenix Security Symposium, held from 20-22 August in San Diego, California. As usual, the conference hosted a variety of interesting talks covering a vast amont of different aspects in computer security. Johanna presented her paper on IPv6 Security at… Read More
A new paper, “Systematization of Knowledge: The Design Space of Digital Payment Systems with Potential for CBD,” led by first author Judith Senn, research assistant at the University of Innsbruck, and co-authored by Aljosha Judmayer, researcher at the University of Vienna, Nicholas Stifter, researcher at SBA Research, ... ∞
Last week, our annual event for partners and friends of SBA Research, IMPACT, brought together experts, practitioners, and decision-makers from research, industry, and the open-source community. The afternoon provided an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in security, AI, and innovation, celebrate our long-standing relationships, and mark 20 years of SBA Research’s contributions to cutting-edge cybersecurity and trustworthy digital innovation. ∞
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. ∞