SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Adrian Dabrwoski received the award for the best student paper at ACSAC 2014 for his paper. You can find a preprint here. Adrian Dabrowski, Nicola Pianta, Thomas Klepp, Martin Mulazzani, and Edgar Weippl. Imsi-Catch Me If You Can: Imsi-Catcher-Catchers. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference… Read More
Lukasz Olejnik, INRIA Privatics, France gives a talk about “Introduction to transparency, privacy and security analyses of Real-Time Bidding”. Abstract Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 11.00 – 12.00 TU Wien, Seminarraum 2/253, Hauptgebäude (Karlsplatz 13) This event is hosted by the IEEE CS/SMCS Austria Chapter.
‘Edgar Weippl, Wissenschaftlicher Leiter des Wiener Forschungsinstituts für Informationssicherheit SBA Research lobt den Ansatz des Planspiels: “Der Schwerpunkt auf Optimierung der Kommunikation zwischen den Akteuren ist positiv zu betrachten…”‘ (futurezone)
Markus Klemen was invited to participate as panelist in the inagurate (ISC)2 Security Congress EMEA 2014, which took place from 9th to 10th of December 2014 in London, UK. The Panel was about “Educating the Future: What Can Employers be Doing?”. (ISC)2 is the global, not-for-profit leader in educating and certifying information security professionals throughout… Read More
Johanna Ullrich has held a presentation on IPv6 at DeepSec – a conference bringing together security professionals from academics, government, industry, and the hacking community in Vienna. Her talk encompassed an introduction to IPv6, current security and privacy vulnerabilities as well countermeasures, and based on SBA’s paper at WOOT’14… Read More
“That would have never occurred to experts.” – Opportunities and Limits of Digital Citizen Participation Today the event “Digital Discourse | Insights into Lived Participation”, supported by SBA Research and organized by Liquid Participation, took place. What expectations are linked to participatory online processes? How is the process design for… Read More
Vom 14. bis 16. November 2014 findet in Wien das von SBA Research unterstützte dreitägige Gründerevent Startup Live statt. Die Veranstaltung schafft Gründern, Investoren und Kreativen Raum zum einander Kennenlernen. Das Programm sieht Vorträge, Mentoring und Begleitung bei der Entwicklung von Geschäftsmodellen vor, bei der die Beteiligten am Schluss mit… Read More
Am 12. November 2014 hält Markus Klemen einen Vortrag über Privatsphäre im Internet – Facebook, Xing, Twitter und Co. und adressiert damit praktische Datenschutzaspekte von Social Media im Rahmen der erstmals stattfindenden digital2014. digital2014 ist eine neue Plattforminitiative der OCG (Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft) und soll ein interdisziplinäres Forum für wissenschaftliche Diskussion… 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. ∞