SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The SBA FIT-IT proposal “INFORM” (Internet Forensic Framework) has been awarded the 2nd place in the competition for the best proposal among all proposals for “Trust in IT-Systems” in 2009. The goal of “INFORM” is to study current challenges in computer forensics and to produce tools that enricht the toolset… Read More
Guest lecture by Prof. Rinderle-Ma on “Evolution von organisatorischen Strukturen und deren Effekte in prozessorientierten Informationssystemen” (Feb 2, 10 am, SBA)… Read More
From January to March 2010, Stefan Fenz will work as a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research at Stanford University. He will develop and implement novel methods for the ontology-based generation of Bayesian networks.
112 People visited our information security-specific program at Lange Nacht der Forschung 2009. The program hosted by Secure Business Austria comprised privacy issues, wireless security, password security, and forensics. EVVA supported our program by presenting the latest lock innovations to our visitors. Read More
We are happy to announce that our SBA2 proposal has been accepted by the jury. The research grants enable us to continue our research till 2014. German press releases can be found at APA and FFG.
On November 7 2009 16:27 – 00:00 Secure Business Austria hosts an information security-specific program at Lange Nacht der Forschung. The program comprises live demonstrations and awareness training in the fields of wireless security, password security, social engineering, privacy, lockpicking, mobile storage security, credit card fraud, and digital… 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. ∞