SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
In the general meeting on 7 May 2013, Markus Klemen, CEO of SBA Research, was elected Vice President (Institutional Members) of the Austrian Computer Society. Furthermore, Prof. Stefanie Rinderle-Ma and KommR Hans-Jürgen Pollirer were elected resp. confirmed as Vice Presidents. More information about the Austrian Computer Society can be found… Read More
Unsere Social Snapshot Framework wurde in der Wintersemesterausgabe 2012 von DURST (Studentemagazin des Falters) vorgestellt. Der Artikel ist in der Online Ausgabe von DURST verfügbar, zum Artikel (“Was darf deine App von dir wissen?” Seite 9).
An interview concerning social network security. Ö1 aired the interview in their daily journals on June 8th 2012. Listen to the interview here: OE1_Journal120608_Huber
Markus Huber participated in a panel discussion on data-mining (more). The event was organized by TCC10 as their annual key-event. The event was also featured on IT-Press.
Pavol Zavarsky is holding a scientific talk at SBA Research about an overview of selected topics and research opportunities in information system security The focus of the presentation will be on two research-intensive fields of information security: (1) detection of web application vulnerabilities, and (2) methods of detecting malware that… Read More
Heute (1. Februar) um 19 Uhr bietet Manuel Leithner im Rahmen des Web Salon 2012, veranstaltet von saferinternet.at, in Form eines Webinars praktische Tips und Informationen zum Thema Sicherheit auch für Computerunvertraute an. Die Teilnahme ist frei, Anmeldung jedoch erforderlich.
At BSidesVienna 2012, Manuel Leithner gave a talk on public transport titled “Hackers on a train – Toying with transportation”, detailing equipment and possible flaws in the on-board network infrastructure and ticketing system of WESTbahn.
The team of the Technical University of Vienna “We_0wn_Y0u” could achieve victory at the iCTF 2011 under the direction of Adrian Dabrowski. In a very exciting, nine-hour competition against 85 international competing teams, also Martin Mulazzani, Peter Frühwirt and Manuel Leithner… 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. ∞