SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Energy providers, banks or even healthcare organizations, if identified as operators of essential services, must ensure that their network and information systems are as resilient as possible in crisis situations. They are therefore required by the EU Directive on security of network and information systems (the NIS Directive), implemented… Read More
Walid Fdhila and Nicholas Stifter (both SBA Research) presented their study results at the 32nd IIW Internet Identity workshop, which gathered experts and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss and debate identity issues. Jointly with their… Read More
The Research Data Alliance 17th Plenary in Edinburg virtually brought together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and from all disciplines under the theme Opening data for global challenges. Tomasz Miksa (SBA Research) chaired a session of the … Read More
SBA Research joined AustrianStartups as supporting partner. We will provide expertise in the fields of Privacy, Data Protection and Security by offering talks, trainings and mentoring. We are looking forward to exciting new collaborations within the growing start up community in Austria and to establishing ourselves as a contact point… Read More
Watch our latest Security Meetup Risikowahrnehmung und menschliche (Ir)Rationalität on YouTube! Philipp Reisinger (security consultant at SBA Research) talks about some of the lesser known – and often ignored – factors that influence one’s own risk perception. As humans, we… Read More
In this episode of the podcast Zukunft Denken, Alexander Schatten talked with Philipp Reisinger about the role of software in modern society. Philipp is an expert for organizational information security consulting at SBA Research, holds certification preparation trainings,… Read More
In the 17th episode of the LSZ webinar series on April 13, Stefan Jakoubi talked with Jörg Schauff (CrowdStrike’s Threat Intel expert) about the “CrowdStrike Global Threat Report” as well as Walter Feichtinger (President of the Center for Strategic Analysis CSA) gave interesting insights on the topic… Read More
Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos from SBA’s MATRIS research group joined the 10th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2021) on Monday, April 12, 2021, in a virtual setting. Dimitris served as the general chair… Read More
SBA-K1, our main strategic research endeavor, has been granted continued funding for the period 2017-2025 under the FFG COMET (Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies) K1-Centres program line. The first four years of our current COMET period (2017 – 2021) have been tremendously successful. We were able to… Read More
Despite being held online-only, this year’s General Assembly of the H2020 project Feature Cloud was a great success and helped to move the project forward, discussing open issues and setting next goals. SBA Research chaired two sessions on work packages we are leading: WP:… Read More
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. ∞
The IRIS web application in version 2.4.26 and possibly others is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in the assets (CVE-2026-16969), custom attributes (CVE-2026-18360) and datastore upload (CVE-2026-18361) functions. ∞
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our researchers, who were recognized at the University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science's Best-of-the-Best Awards on June 24. ∞