SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Checkmk in versions before 2.4.0p22 and 2.3.0p43 is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability when used in a distributed monitoring setup. Any connected remote site can inject JavaScript code in the central site's user interface. ... Read More
Suprema’s BioStar 2 in version 2.9.11.6 allows users to set new password without providing the current one. Exploiting this flaw combined with other vulnerabilities can lead to unauthorized account access and potential system compromise. ... Read More
In Episode 147 of the Zukunft Denken – Podcast, Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, address this question under the title: “Digital Colony or Sovereignty?” ... Read More
We are delighted to congratulate Jeanine Lefèvre, our Head of Equal Opportunities Office, on successfully completing the part-time 'Diversity Facilitator' course. Offered by Integrationswerkstatt, the course covers important topics from diversity research in depth, including equal opportunities and anti-discrimination, foreign and human rights, media and digital skills, intercultural communication and conflict management, as well as methodology and didactics. ... Read More
SBA Research was delighted to host Dr. Fatma Nur Esirci Oral as a visiting researcher during the past three months.
During her stay, Dr. Esirci Oral worked on security-oriented test vector generation for rarely activated logic in digital circuits, a topic relevant to hardware security testing. She also prepared a state-of-the-art overview to support the next steps in this line of research. ... Read More
Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... Read More
We warmly congratulate Prof. Johanna Ullrich, key researcher at SBA Research, on her appointment to the Founding Professorship in Security at IT:U. ... Read More
At the end of January, our 1st OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup took place, featuring three excellent speaker sharing insights on LLM Security. ... Read More
Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... ∞
Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... ∞