SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
We are incredibly proud of the Austrian hacking team KuK Hofhackerei, which secured 9th place at DEF CON CTF 33, one of the toughest and most renowned Capture the Flag competitions in the world. The DEF CON Capture the Flag competition is… Read More
We're excited to announce that Michael Pucher, a researcher at SBA Research, delivered a compelling talk titled "Here Be Dragons: Ghidra Decompiler API Adventures" at this year's BalCCon. Read More
On June 14, 2024, Matthias Eckhart attended the DCNA Young Scientists Networking Event and pitched his research on “Security-by-Design for Industrial Control Systems (ICSs).” The event was organized by the Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA) and hosted by the… Read More
Matthias Eckhart, researcher at SBA Research, has been named one of the CPS Rising Stars for 2024. Targeted at exceptional PhD students and postdoctoral researchers interested in academic careers in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), the selected rising stars were invited to participate in… 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. ... ∞