SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our colleague Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research and a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, has published a journal article titled “Multi-Class Machine Learning to Quantify the Impact of Nitrogen Management Practices on Grassland Biomass” in MDPI’s Journal Nitrogen ... Read More
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 21st ICT Security Conference on 25 and 26 June 2025, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. They impressed the audience with their… Read More
Together with sipgate and ISMK Stralsund, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Michael Pucher, researcher at SBA research, discovered and investigated a vulnerability in the Voice of LTE (VoLTE) stack that is broadly used within MediaTek-based smartphones. Read More
In the Mediatek modem, there is a possible system crash due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote denial of service, if a UE has connected to a rogue base station controlled by the attacker, with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Read More
In 2025, the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) once again recognizes outstanding academic work in the fields of Computer Science and Business Informatics with the OCG Förderpreis and the OCG Förderpreis-FH. This year’s OCG Förderpreis goes to our research colleague Daryna Oliynyk for… Read More
Bluetooth Low Energy is one of the most widely used protocols used in Internet of Things (IoT) and multimedia devices. Security issues in these applications are prone to affect a significant number of end users and companies alike. In their latest work applying the Combinatorial Security Testing (CST) approach… Read More
The research on Combinatorial Security Testing (CST) by the MATRIS group of SBA Research is amongst the top five nominations for the Houska prize, Austria's largest private award for application-oriented research, in the category non-university research. ... 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
Last week, our annual event for partners and friends of SBA Research, IMPACT, brought together experts, practitioners, and decision-makers from research, industry, and the open-source community. The afternoon provided an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in security, AI, and innovation, celebrate our long-standing relationships, and mark 20 years of SBA Research’s contributions to cutting-edge cybersecurity and trustworthy digital innovation. ∞
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). ∞