SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
In JR Center for „User-friendly Secure Mobile Environments“ deals with security aspects in current and future mobile applications – e.g., credit and debit card functionalities, cash transactions or (un)locking doors. Center director is Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. René Mayrhofer; the center located at the FH Oberösterreich. Company Partners are: A1 Telekom… Read More
An interview concerning social network security. Ö1 aired the interview in their daily journals on June 8th 2012. Listen to the interview here: OE1_Journal120608_Huber
SBA Research participated at the innovation panel “IT Security and Privacy”, organized by the City of Vienna! Articles about and photos of the event on the ZIT blog. … Read More
The Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter has been chartered by ACM’s Chief Operating Officer on February 13, 2012. SBA Research is strongly involved in this chapter. … Read More
Ingrid Schaumüller-Bichl and Edgar Weippl cordially invite to the 1st Young Researcher’s Day which will take place during the OCG working group „IT security“ on 01/03/2012. The basic idea behind this event is the desire that every Austrian institution that offers a security course or teaching focus, provides their best… 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. ∞