SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our colleague Georg Merzdovnik, senior researcher and team lead of research group ISIS at SBA Research, hosted Hacker Jeopardy at Disobey 2026, one of Europe’s most well-known hacker and cybersecurity community events. ... Read More
Checkmk in versions before 2.4.0p22 and 2.3.0p43 is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability when used in a distributed monitoring setup. Any connected remote site can inject JavaScript code in the central site's user interface. ... Read More
Suprema’s BioStar 2 in version 2.9.11.6 allows users to set new password without providing the current one. Exploiting this flaw combined with other vulnerabilities can lead to unauthorized account access and potential system compromise. ... Read More
In Episode 147 of the Zukunft Denken – Podcast, Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, address this question under the title: “Digital Colony or Sovereignty?” ... Read More
We are delighted to congratulate Jeanine Lefèvre, our Head of Equal Opportunities Office, on successfully completing the part-time 'Diversity Facilitator' course. Offered by Integrationswerkstatt, the course covers important topics from diversity research in depth, including equal opportunities and anti-discrimination, foreign and human rights, media and digital skills, intercultural communication and conflict management, as well as methodology and didactics. ... Read More
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 “Mean Reversion and Heavy Tails: Characterizing Time-Series Data Using Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Processes and Machine Learning” in MDPI’s Journal Sensors in collaboration with the CD lab AsTra. ... Read More
In January, the AIAGENT4CYBER consortium gathered in Vienna for a kick-off meeting that set the strategic and collaborative foundation for the years ahead. ... Read More
SBA Research was delighted to host Dr. Fatma Nur Esirci Oral as a visiting researcher during the past three months.
During her stay, Dr. Esirci Oral worked on security-oriented test vector generation for rarely activated logic in digital circuits, a topic relevant to hardware security testing. She also prepared a state-of-the-art overview to support the next steps in this line of research. ... Read More
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). ∞
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. ∞