SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Engin Kirda et al. analyzed nearly 1,500 suspicious e-mail messages targeting a human-rights NGO. “The team found that, while the malware managed to reliably evade detection by many antivirus programs, the attacks were relatively unsophisticated, using known vulnerabilities that had already been patched.” Read the whole article here. The paper will be presented… Read More
The 28th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec’14) was held in Vienna, Austria from 14-16 July 2014, organized by SBA Research. Keynote by Chris Clifton Conference Dinner Award Ceremony Special Coffee Break… Read More
Katharina Krombholz and Martina Lindorfer of SBA Research organize a TechNIKE workshop on “Security on the Internet: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagramm & Co” at the TU Wien. The aim is to enthuse girls aged between 10 and 14 years for technology. This is an initiative of the TU Wien (project genderfair)… Read More
Adrian Dabrowski and Alexej Strelzow are accepted at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo for an internship. Alexej Strelzow will participate in the research area of Artificial Intelligence/Web Informatics which is headed by Prof. Hideaki Takeda. Alexej’s research focus will be Semantic Web and Linked (Open) Data. Adrian Dabrowski… Read More
The IMPACT 2014 was a great success: exciting expert lectures, posters and lightning talks on our latest research as well as plenty to eat and drink. The program, slides and some pictures are available here. We thank you for your participation!… Read More
Since April 9, SBA Research performs a daily scan of all Austrian IP addresses (approximately 12 million) due to the acute threat situation. Thereby, 121,420 IP addresses have been identified that respond to an HTTPS request for a webpage. Each server can be home to one or multiple sites. Of… Read More
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. ∞
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). ∞