SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, got interviewed by journalist Daphne Hruby for the podcast episode "Science under stress: When science is under time pressure", in October. ... Read More
Our hiking days have become a cherished tradition at SBA Research, bringing us all together to explore exciting trails. Every few months, we pick a different hiking path and warmly invite all team members to join in. This time, we took on the scenic Kieneck hiking area, a route known… Read More
The best digitalization projects from business and administration were honoured at the eAward 2024 business prize ceremony and we are proud to announce that Shecurity - Hackerinnen Training won the eAward 2024 in the category "Education and Social"! ... Read More
In September, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and PhD candidate at the University of Vienna, presented his work on Telecommunication Security in 4G/5G Networks at the Mobile Security Conference in Stralsund, Germany. His talk focused on methodologies for active… Read More
Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research, published an interesting journal article titled “Quantum-Inspired Kernel Matrices: Exploring Symmetry in Machine Learning“ in Physics Letters A via ScienceDirect by ELSEVIER. This insightful article explores how quantum principles can inspire new approaches… Read More
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 20th ICT Security Conference on 17 and 18 September 2024, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. They impressed the audience with their… Read More
We're excited to announce that Michael Pucher, a researcher at SBA Research, delivered a compelling talk titled "Here Be Dragons: Ghidra Decompiler API Adventures" at this year's BalCCon. Read More
At the beginning of September, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research, gave this year's keynote on Firmware Forensics: Semantic Functionality Identification Through Symbolic Execution and Program Simulation. Read More
Mathias Tausig is information security consultant at SBA Research and gave an interesting talk on The monster in your basement: Security risks of CI/CD systems. Read More
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. ∞
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. ∞