SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – EU Cookie Law (GDPR) – Stored XSS (CVE-2019-16522)

October 23, 2019

The eu-cookie-law plugin through 3.0.6 for WordPress (aka EU Cookie Law (GDPR)) is susceptible to Stored XSS due to improper encoding of several configuration options in the admin area and the displayed cookie consent message. This affects Font Color, Background Color, and the Disable Cookie text. An attacker with high privileges can attack other users. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – EU Cookie Law (GDPR) – Stored XSS (CVE-2019-16522)

SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – Events Manager – Stored XSS (CVE-2019-16523)

October 23, 2019

The events-manager plugin through 5.9.5 for WordPress (aka Events Manager) is susceptible to Stored XSS due to improper encoding and insertion of data provided to the attribute map_style of shortcodes (locations_map and events_map) provided by the plugin. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – Events Manager – Stored XSS (CVE-2019-16523)

Edgar Weippl speaks about Security in Distributed Systems

October 18, 2019

Edgar Weippl gave a presentation on Security in Distributed Systems at the technology workshop for the financial industry “Empowered Edge für Banken und Versicherungen”. Read more

SBA Research is the first Austrian company in the CONCORDIA Course landscape!

October 15, 2019

Let’s work together to improve cyber security in the European Union! Concordia partners, both from industry and academia, put together their offer for courses aimed at developing cybersecurity skills. “Towards a European Education Ecosystem for Cybersecurity” Concordia at a glance. Read More

Matthias Eckhart speaks about ICS Security at the Austrian Disaster Research Days 2019

October 14, 2019

Matthias Eckhart gives a talk at the Austrian Disaster Research Days 2019 about the state of industrial control systems (ICS) security. Read more

Tomasz Miksa holds keynote on PKOS19

October 11, 2019

Tomasz Miksa gave a keynote on “Engaging researchers with research data management through machine-actionable Data Management Plans” during the “Pomorska Konferencja Open Science (PKOS)” in Gdańsk, Poland. In his talk he discussed challenges in rolling out systems supporting open science and explained why machine-actionable Data Management Plans play… Read More

Young Researchers´Day @ ICT Security Conference 2019

October 8, 2019

A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work in the course of the ICT Security Conference on October 1-2, 2019. Katharina Pfeffer (SBA) introduced her research in the area of Usable Security. The conference counting a total of 2500 attendees once more showed that cyber attacks present a… Read More

SBA @ 2nd Conference on Urban Resilience

October 8, 2019

The 2nd Conference on Urban Resilience, organized by the Czech Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics Institute (CIIRC), targeted the interdisciplinary approach of fostering technological innovation in an emerging field such as Resilience. In regard to the specific focus on increasing the urban capabilities to tackle present and… Read More

Tomasz Miksa @ IEEE eScience 2019

October 7, 2019

Tomasz Miksa and Bernhard Gößwein presented their paper on Data identification and process monitoring for reproducible earth observation research at the 15th IEEE eScience conference in San Diego. Earth observation researchers use specialised computing services for satellite image processing offered by various data… Read More

IKT-Sicherheitskonferenz & Young Researchers´ Day 2019

October 1, 2019

SBA Research organizes jointly with the FH Upper Austria and the Austrian Computer Society the Young Researchers’ Day, co-located with the IKT Sicherheitskonferenz 2019. The Young Researchers’ Day brings together information security graduates from several Austrian institutions. For… Read More

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