SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Dimitris Simos was invited to join the editorial board of the Mathematics in Computer Science (MCS) journal published and distributed by Springer. MCS publishes high-quality original research papers on the development of theories and methods for computer and information sciences, the design, implementation, and analysis of algorithms and… Read More
Für ein Kooperationsprojekt mit unserem Unternehmenspartner Stiwa suchen wir SoftwareentwicklerInnen mit Schwerpunkt .Net-Programmierung, welche im Bereich Automation arbeiten möchten. Nach Vereinbarung besteht die Möglichkeit die ausgeschriebenen Aufgaben im Rahmen von Forschungskooperationen (Masterarbeit oder Dissertation) mit SBA Research gGmbH oder der TU Wien zu übernehmen. Bewerbungen bitte an eweippl@sba-research.org und… Read More
Ercim news is seeking short articles (700-800 words) on the current topic for its special theme “Digital Twins”. This is related to our ongoing research activities in the Christian Doppler Laboratory SQI (Links zu www.sqi.at) Submission Deadline Thursday, 28 August https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/call Guest editors: Benjamin Sanderse (CWI)… Read More
Alexei Zaymatin presented “A Wild Velvet Fork Appears!” at the 2018 Building on Bitcoin conference in Lisbon. Building on Bitcoin, Lisbon 2018 Click here to watch the full presentation… Read More
Alexei Zamyatin gets paper “Committing to quantum resistance: a slow defence for Bitcoin against a fast quantum computing attack” published by the Royal Society. Full paper He also gives a talk on velvet forks at the Building on Bitcoin conference next week. More information… Read More
Two very insightful days on Crypto-Currencies, law enforcement and illegal markets. Edgar Weippl participated as member of the Europol’s EC3 Academic Advisor Network. Read More
A great article by Ruth Hutsteiner highlights our current research that we jointly perform with the CDL-SQI. An interview with Edgar Weippl will be broadcast in today’s ‘Wissen aktuell‘ in Ö1
Tomasz Miksa co-hosted RDA Chairs Collaboration Meeting which was held in the festive hall of the TU Wien 13-15 June 2018. Chairs representing working and interest groups met to discuss ongoing developments and to analyse future development directions. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is an international organization focused on… Read More
Yesterday at “Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference” [LION] Ludwig Kampel presented a paper titled “Combinatorial Methods for Testing Communication Protocols in Smart Cities” in the special session “Computational Intelligence for Smart Cities” ( Dimitris E. Simos, Ludwig Kampel, Murat Ozcan). This paper proposes a combinatorial method for testing the Building… 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. ∞