SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Am 28.06.2012 findet bei SBA Research in Kooperation mit dem Institut für interaktive Systeme und Softwaretechnik der TU Wien ein Workshop zur Datensicherheit in der Medizin statt. Immer öfter werden Vorfälle mit sensiblen Daten publik und immer mehr gesetzliche und regulative Anforderungen werden an Firmen, Institutionen und Datenverarbeiter im Medizin- und Gesundheitsbereich gestellt. Read More
SBA Research participated at the innovation panel “IT Security and Privacy”, organized by the City of Vienna! Articles about and photos of the event on the ZIT blog. … Read More
ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, offers fellowships for PhD holders from all over the world. Next application deadline: April 30 2012. (details…)
The section about our projects in the Digital Preservation area is now up-to-date. Information on the research topics of the group and their current projects can be found here.
The thin line between design aspects for the private IT infrastructure in enterprises and the ones used to build a Private Cloud Computing environments makes it difficult to find actual differences. In many areas, there is actually a significant amount of similarities and overlaps between design approaches. To emphasizes essential… Read More
“This is not a book about security management; it is book [sic] about security leadership” — the first lines of the introduction clearly summarize the goal of this book and thus set it apart from the pile of books on information security management. (more)… 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. ∞