SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our paper “Automated Risk and Utility Management” has been accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations 2009.
At the LSZ CIO Congress 2008, SBA Managing Director Markus Klemen will organize the area “Security / Risk” and will moderate the workshop “Change in IT-Security – A lookout”. Managing Partner Andreas Tomek will represent Security Research at the event. Beim heurigen CIO Kongress des LSZ wird Mag. Read More
SBA organizes the ARES Conference (http://www.ares-conference.eu/). This year’s conference will be held in Japan. In 2010 the conference will move back to Europe, where Vienna is the planned venue. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers… Read More
In October 2008, Edgar Weippl joined the STRAW project as an external expert. STRAW stands for ‘Security Technology Active Watch‘. STRAW is a support action under the Security Research theme that aims at providing a European Service of Technology Watch on Security Technologies. The consortium: Atos Origin SAE AeroSpace and… Read More
8.10.08: At the “Impulse08” events of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) in Vienna, Graz and Salzburg, GM Markus Klemen talks about the challenges to IT-Security due to company employees. 8.10.08: Im Rahmen der Impulse08 Veranstaltungsreihe der österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) referiert Mag. Markus Klemen im Schluss Leopoldskron… Read More
01./02.10.08: General Manager Markus Klemen presents new developments in the area of data theft at two events for executives, which were organized by the Abwehramt, the defense intelligence unit of the Austrian Ministry of Defense. 01./02.10.08: Geschäftsführer Mag. Klemen präsentiert in Vorträgen im Rahmen zweier Veranstaltungen für… Read More
At the Vienna media exhibition (http://www.medienmesse.at/) Edgar Weippl presents current projects of the research centre in cooperation with ZIT (Zentrum für Innovation und Technologie – Center for Innovation and Technology: http://www.zit.co.at/). Computer Forensics work on securing and analyzing digital data in order to reconstruct cancelled information, track changes or… Read More
SBA supports microsoft’s student partners organizing this years academic community launch. This event aims at informing students about the newest technologies regarding .NET. SBA unterstützt die Microsoft Student Partner beim diesjährigen Academic Community Launch. Diese Event richtet sich an Studenten und informiert… 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. ∞