SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Consultant Information Security (Details in German) Junior System Engineer – Vollzeit (m/w) Junior System Engineer – Teilzeit (m/w) Project assistant positions in Mathematics for Testing, Reliability and Information Security Technical IT Security Consultant (Junior/Senior): Professional Services (Details in German)… Read More
Yvonne Poul has successfully completed her MBA studies in “Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship”, conducted by WU Vienna and TU Vienna. Congratulations!… Read More
The IKT-Sicherheitskonferenz hosted by the Austrian Armed Forces has taken place in Alpbach from October 16-17, 2018. In addition to Wilfried Mayer giving a talk on current development in the TOR network SBA has once more hosted the Young Researchers´ Day. IKT-Sicherheitskonferenz… Read More
Philipp Reisinger will hold an exciting talk today entitled “Two Worlds and One Reality – Approaching Security and Risk in the Real and the Virtual World” at the Congress Center Alpbach (IKT Security Conference 2018). Interested people will have the opportunity to attend the talk/lecture also on November 14, in… Read More
Security & Safety: 2 schools of thought – 1 goal? The (ISC)2 / ISACA Conference hosted in TU Wien´s dome hall on October 11, 2018 counted a total of 170 participants and 9 talks contributing experience and knowledge from different fields. The agenda addressed… Read More
Edgar Weippl gave a keynote on Research Methods and Examples of Research in Distributed Systems Security at the SST 2018 in Osijek, Croatia. Abstract: Over the past few years an increasing number of descriptive works have helped explain complex phenomena in the area of distributed systems… Read More
Aljosha Judmayer talked about the latest Security fails and the role of IT-Security in Blockchain at the Blockchain in corporate practice event hosted by the Austrian Innovation Forum. Read More
Martina Lindorfer was selected as the winner of the 2018 Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award. The award committee recognises Martina's impressive achievements and outstanding quality of her research in the field of systems security, especially the analysis of malicious software and mobile operating system vulnerabilities.
The ceremony takes place on Oct 10 in Goteburg. Edgar Weippl was her supervisor and we are happy that after some time as a PostDoc at UC Santa Barbara she returns to Vienna on a tenure track position. Read More
Alexei Zamyatin and Dominik Harz (Imperail College London) gave an invited talk entitled „Interoperability with Cryptocurrency-backed Tokens“ at Scaling Bitcoins 2018 in Tokyo. Slides Paper
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. ∞