SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
From 18th to 19th June 2009 Aad van Moorsel and Simon E. Parkin from Newcastle University will visit our research center. Our goal is to identify and initialize joint research projects between Newcastle University and Secure Business Austria in the field of economically justified security solutions. On 18th June… Read More
Edgar Weippl gives a talk on Database Forensic at the Security Forum in Hagenberg. Abstract: Whenever data is being processed, there are many places where parts of the data are temporarily stored; thus forensic analysis can reveal past activities, create a (partial) timeline and restore deleted data. While this fact… Read More
We are attending the IEEE International Conference on Systems and present our latest research results regarding pseudonymization. We received the best paper award for the paper “Technologies for the Pseudonymization of Medical Data: A Legal Evaluation”. Read More
We took the second place with the project Secure 2.0 (FIT-IT) in this year’s FIT-IT awards. Secure 2.0 ———– Secure 2.0 project aims to secure the Information Sharing on social networks for individuals by proposing an innovative machine learning technique for analysis of big social data. 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. ∞