SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The Laravel framework versions between 11.9.0 and 11.35.1 are susceptible to reflected cross-site scripting due to an improper encoding of route parameters in the debug-mode error page. Read More
The Laravel framework versions between 11.9.0 and 11.35.1 are susceptible to reflected cross-site scripting due to an improper encoding of request parameters in the debug-mode error page. Read More
The research project combinatorial security testing of the MATRIS Research Group has been nominated in the category Non-University Research for the 2025 Houska Prize! Since its establishment in 2005, the Houska Prize is sponsored… Read More
Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, was interviewed by journalist Daphne Hruby for the current podcast episode "How to become a scientist". ... Read More
Today, we celebrate Safer Internet Day—an initiative dedicated to promoting safer and more responsible use of digital technologies. We’re proud to take action not just today, but throughout the entire year, with activities focused on cybersecurity awareness and skills development:… Read More
At the end of 2024, Irene Hiess, Ludwig Kampel and Dimitris Simos published a paper on Optimal ordered covering arrays via an exact algorithm in the Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Application. Abstract Ordered covering arrays (orCAs) are combinatorial… Read More
For decades, AI systems have been used to defend against cyberattacks. However, modern AI, particularly generative AI, not only strengthens defense mechanisms but also introduces new attack methods. A study conducted by SBA Research on behalf of RTR examined the latest advancements in cybersecurity from both offensive (Red Team) and… Read More
At the end of January, Shecurity – Women in Security visited the Austrian Armed Forces and was given an exclusive insight into the Military Cyber Center by Lambert Scharwitzl. Afterwards, the group watched the talk “We Know Where… Read More
On January 20th, the OCG Annual Opening 2025 brought together industry leaders and experts to discuss the crucial topic of information and cybersecurity. The event provided valuable insights into protecting businesses from cyber threats and meeting the requirements of the EU Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2). OCG President… Read More
Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research, recently participated in the EOSC Winter School 2025, held from January 20–23 in Seville, Spain. Attending as the Technical Coordinator of the OSTrails project and a member of the EOSC Technical and Semantic Interoperability Task Force, Tomasz contributed to… Read More
We are proud to announce that we joined the Linux Foundation Europe, further strengthening our role within the international open-source community. With this step, we are reinforcing our commitment to advancing security and resilience in digital infrastructures. ... ∞
David Schmidt, PhD student at CD-Lab AsTra, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab, and Edgar Weippl, scientific director at SBA Research and full professor for security & privacy at the University of Vienna, received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. ... ∞