SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
We will present a paper on smartphone message application security at NDSS 2012. You can find a preprint of the paper here: Guess Who’s Texting You? Evaluating the Security of Smartphone Messaging Applications. From the abstract: In recent months a new generation of mobile messaging and VoIP applications… Read More
At BSidesVienna 2012, Manuel Leithner gave a talk on public transport titled “Hackers on a train – Toying with transportation”, detailing equipment and possible flaws in the on-board network infrastructure and ticketing system of WESTbahn.
The key researcher Stefan Katzenbeisser gave a talk at 28C3 (derStandard.at, heise.de, futurezone.at, diePresse.com, reuters.com, telegraph.co.uk, bbc.co.uk)
Our researchers plan future research in cooperation with NII: Dr. N. Sonehara, Information and Society Research Director at NII and Project Reader at ROIS/TRIC. Dr. Y. Ichifuji, ROIS/TRIC Dr. I. Echizen, Associate Professor at NII. Dr. S. Wohlgemuth, Associate Professor at NII and ROIS/TRIC … Read More
Starting at 3pm Dr. N. Sonehara, “Data-centric Socio-Informatics Supporting Public Policy Decision Making, NII and ROIS/TRIC. Dr. Y. Ichifuji, “Web Data Driven Information Circulation and Its application of Resilience Evaluation”, ROIS/TRIC Dr. I. Echizen, “Multimedia Location Privacy Control Mechanism”, NII Dr. S. Wohlgemuth, “Resilient Social System Design… Read More
The team of the Technical University of Vienna “We_0wn_Y0u” could achieve victory at the iCTF 2011 under the direction of Adrian Dabrowski. In a very exciting, nine-hour competition against 85 international competing teams, also Martin Mulazzani, Peter Frühwirt and Manuel Leithner… Read More
“We have subjected the cloud solution from A1 to an architecture analysis and can confirm that the data in the A1 Austria Cloud are stored only on servers that are operated in Austria,” confirms Markus Klemen, CEO of Secure Business Austria Research. (mehr…)
A Bird’s-Eye View of Optimal Codes and Symmetric Cryptography from Combinatorial Designs Dimitris E. Simos, Department of Mathematics, National Technical University of Athens, Abstract: In the past few decades, combinatorial design theory has grown to encompass a wider variety of investigations, many… Read More
Clemens Kolbitsch recently finished his PhD supervised by Engin Kirda and Chris Kruegel. Tomorrow, he will present his paper “The Power of Procrastination: Detection and Mitigation of Execution-Stalling Malicious Code” at CCS 2011. Clemens will shortly join our partner company TLLOD.
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. ∞