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SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Upcoming Events:

IEEE Euro S&P 2024
08.07.2024 - 12.07.2024
ARES 2024
30.07.2024 - 02.08.2024
Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 1
30.09.2024 - 02.10.2024

Recent News:

Felix Berlakovich gives Lightning Talk at Mozilla Research Summit

SBA supports the organization of the Mozilla Security Research Summit on November 8, 2019. The event will be hosted as part of Mozilla’s Security Engineering University Relationship Framework (SURF) initiative. In addition to Mozilla engineers discussing current research problems, the day will also include some high-caliber talks from security… Read More
Felix Berlakovich gives Lightning Talk at Mozilla Research Summit

Martina Lindorfer receives Hedy Lamarr Award

Martina Lindorfer has been awarded the Hedy Lamarr price for her research in the field of automatic malware detection. As a professor at TU Wien she hopes to inspire girls to pursue a career in the field of IT Security. The city of Vienna awards women in the area of… Read More

Rudolf Mayer @ Security Research Event 2019, Helsinki

Rudolf Mayer is representing the EU H2020 project FeatureCloud and SBA Research at the Security Research Event 2019 in Helsinki, Finland, co-organized by the European Commission and the Ministry of the Interior in Finland as a side event of Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union (https://www.sre2019.eu). Read More

SBA Research @ Digital Days Vienna

New Technologies, new companies and new challenges in the digital world. At the DiDays SBA Research highlights the importance of a holistic security approach and the imminent role of security in a world of digitalization. Explaining interested children and visitors the role of IT, logical thinking and the necessity of… Read More

SBA places 15th out of +900 at Hack.lu 2019

Andreas Boll and Tobias Fink (WE_OWN_YOU) secured the third place (local) and 15th place (overall) at the hack.lu.CTF. Many thanks to the CTF team and most importantly the CTF LVA students from TU Wien. Hack.lu is an open convention/conference where people can discuss about computer security, privacy, information technology… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – Broken Link Checker – Reflected XSS (CVE-2019-16521)

The broken-link-checker plugin through 1.11.8 for WordPress (aka Broken Link Checker) is susceptible to Reflected XSS due to improper encoding and insertion of an HTTP GET parameter into HTML. The filter function on the page listing all detected broken links can be exploited by providing an XSS payload in the s_filter GET parameter in a filter_id=search request. NOTE: this is an end-of-life product. Read More