SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Edgar Weippl gives a keynote on Security in Production Systems Engineering in Hanoi, Vietnam. The workshop is organized by DAAD and ASEA-UNINET. Read More
Shimon Machida, Adrian Dabrowski, Edgar Weippl, and Isao Echizen. PrivacyTag: A community-based method for protecting privacy of photographed subjects in online social networks. In 16th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e- Business, e-Services and e-Society, pages 261–275. Springer LNCS, 11 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68557-1 24, best paper award. The paper… Read More
Tomasz Miksa presented recent developments of the Research Data Alliance working group on common standards for machine-actionable data management plans during a conference on “Engaging Researchers in Good Data Management” that was organised jointly by the University of Cambridge, SPARC Europe, and JISC. To learn more on the… Read More
The Seventh International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences (MACIS 2017) was held at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, from November 15-17, 2017. After an oldtimer tramtour the participants around general… Read More
Edgar Weippl gives next week a keynote at “Industry 4.0 – Current Trends and Strategies” (Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) in co-operation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and ASEA-UNINET)
Edgar Weippl attended the Senter Conference and at WG meeting on digital forensics. SBA Research will continue supporting the Senter initiative and will help establishing a permanent umbrella organization for the European Network of Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime. Read More
Today Alexei Zamyatin defended his Master’s thesis “Merged Mining: Analysis of Effects and Implications” and Philipp Schindler his Master’s thesis “Randomness for Blockchains Generating Publicly-Verifiable and Bias-Resistant Randomness in Decentralized Systems” successfully. Congratulations!… Read More
At the 13th Haifa Verification Conference [HVC], Bernhard Garn was presenting a tool demo [KERIS] for the accepted paper “KERIS: A CT Tool of the Linux Kernel with Dynamic Memory Analysis Capabilities” (Bernhard Garn, Fabian Würfl, and Dimitris E. Simos). HVC is organized by IBM Research… 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. ∞