SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our colleague Georg Merzdovnik, senior researcher and team lead of research group ISIS at SBA Research, hosted Hacker Jeopardy at Disobey 2026, one of Europe’s most well-known hacker and cybersecurity community events. ... Read More
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
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. ∞