SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Bernhard Garn participated as trainee in the 1st NERO Winter School on Fire Spread and Behavior Reconstruction, which was held between February 18 – 21, 2025, at the Command Center of the Autoridade Nacional de Emergência e Proteção Civil (engl.,Portuguese National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection;… Read More
We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the 2025 Swift Provider – Customer Security Programme Assessment label by Swift. This prestigious recognition highlights our commitment to maintaining high cybersecurity standards and excellence in customer security assessments. The label was granted following a rigorous… Read More
The Laravel framework versions between 11.9.0 and 11.35.1 are susceptible to reflected cross-site scripting due to an improper encoding of route parameters in the debug-mode error page. Read More
The Laravel framework versions between 11.9.0 and 11.35.1 are susceptible to reflected cross-site scripting due to an improper encoding of request parameters in the debug-mode error page. Read More
The research project combinatorial security testing of the MATRIS Research Group has been nominated in the category Non-University Research for the 2025 Houska Prize! Since its establishment in 2005, the Houska Prize is sponsored… Read More
Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, was interviewed by journalist Daphne Hruby for the current podcast episode "How to become a scientist". ... Read More
Today, we celebrate Safer Internet Day—an initiative dedicated to promoting safer and more responsible use of digital technologies. We’re proud to take action not just today, but throughout the entire year, with activities focused on cybersecurity awareness and skills development:… Read More
At the end of 2024, Irene Hiess, Ludwig Kampel and Dimitris Simos published a paper on Optimal ordered covering arrays via an exact algorithm in the Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Application. Abstract Ordered covering arrays (orCAs) are combinatorial… Read More
For decades, AI systems have been used to defend against cyberattacks. However, modern AI, particularly generative AI, not only strengthens defense mechanisms but also introduces new attack methods. A study conducted by SBA Research on behalf of RTR examined the latest advancements in cybersecurity from both offensive (Red Team) and… Read More
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. ∞
New paper “Send and Pretend: Exploiting Transcript Consistency Issues in End-to-End Encrypted Group Chats”, was recently accepted for the 35th USENIX Security Symposium. The paper is a collaboration between SBA, the University of Vienna, and the Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (IT:U). It was authored by Gabriel K. Gegenhuber, Moritz Grefner, Maximilian Günther, Matthäus Wininger, David Schmidt, and Aljosha Judmayer. ∞