SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Maria Christakis has been awarded the 2026 ACM-W Rising Star Award, presented by ACM-W: ACM’s Women in Computing. This prestigious recognition honours outstanding early-career researchers who have made exceptional contributions to the computing field. ... Read More
On February 19, Gabriel Gegenhuber successfully passed his Rigorosum with excellent evaluations, defending his dissertation "Democratizing Measurement of Critical Mobile Infrastructure: Security and Privacy in an Increasingly Centralized Communication Ecosystem" before the committee and PhD supervisor Johanna Ullrich. ... Read More
LibreChat version 0.8.1-rc2 uses the same JWT secret for the user session mechanism and RAG API which compromises the service-level authentication of the RAG API. ... Read More
On February 19, Florian Holzbauer successfully completed his Rigorosum, receiving excellent evaluations.
He successfully defended his dissertation, “Turning Failure into Knowledge: Extending the Observable Internet by Leveraging Delivery Failures,” before the committee and Florian’s PhD thesis supervisor Johanna Ullrich. ... Read More
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
Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... ∞
Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... ∞