SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Today, Stefan Fenz attends the European Security Round Table in Brussels. The European Security Round Table is a neutral platform between the EU Institutions, NATO and other relevant actors to discuss European security and defence issues.
SBA managing director Markus Klemen presents social engineering cases at this years’ “IKT-Sicherheitsseminar” of the Austrian Armed Forces Security Agency. See the program for further details.
SBA managing director Markus Klemen was interviewed and cited in Wednesdays’ “Die Presse” concerning the organizational and technical limitations of website blockers. Link to the online version: http://diepresse.com/home/panorama/oesterreich/512034/index.do?from=suche.intern.portal
SBA managing director Markus Klemen was interviewed and cited in Sundays’ “Die Presse” concerning the technical difficulties behind DNS-based website blockers. Link to the online version: http://diepresse.com/home/techscience/internet/509459/index.do?from=suche.intern.portal
The IPICS academic summer school is a two weeks course for Master`s students in their final year, PhD students and IT professionals interested in a comprehensive overview and broad coverage of recent developments in “Information and Communication Security”. Speakers include Prof. Preneel, Prof. Lopez, Prof. Samarati and many more.
Titel === Schutz Privatsphäre bei der Weitergabe von persönlichen Daten in Geschäftsprozessen Abstract ===== Der Schutz der Privatsphäre in Geschäftsprozessen für personalisierte Dienstleistungen basiert momentan auf das Vertrauen der Nutzer in die Diensteanbieter. Diese Geschäftsprozesse erfordern nicht nur eine… Read More
Two papers are presented at the EDMEDIA conference (“Integrated Approach for the Detection of Learning Styles and Affective States” and “Screen Recording for E-Learning”)
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. ∞