SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Today, Peter Kieseberg presented our work „Real-time Forensics through Endpoint Visibility“ at the „9th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime“ (ICDF2C2017) in Prague.
Today Philipp Reisinger will talk about “The Defender’s Dilemma” at the Austrian IT Security day in Klagenfurt. The IT Security day takes place in conjunction with IT Carinthia Further information can be found here.
Jointly with the OCG working group on information security we organized the young researchers’ day. Edgar Weippl gave a talk on Bitcoins. Philipp Reisinger gave a talk at the IKT Sicherheitskonferenz about “Techology radar and Security 4.0”. The event takes place at the congress center villach today. The program… Read More
Alexei Zamyatin presented his paper „Swimming with Fishes and Sharks – Beneath the Surface of Queue-based Ethereum Mining Pools“ at the IEEE MASCOTS 2017 conference which took place from September 20 – 22, 2017 in Banff, Canada.
Aljosha Judmayer was invited to give a lightning talk about “Do we need the Blockchain” at the DigitalDays 2017. The DigitalDays 2017 presented the digital competence of Vienna as a location, all activities related to the DigitalCity.Wien initiative and its partners. Innovative technologies were presented and could be experienced in… Read More
Stefan Jakoubi will give a talk on Risk Communication – “To be informed, or not to be informed: that is the question” at DEEPINTEL today. Making correct and effective decisions requires complete, meaningful and tailored data. This is nothing new and what sounds like an easy challenge is nowadays still surprisingly difficult… Read More
Stefan Jakoubi is attending Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, which takes place from 18-19. Sept. in London, UK. Further details can be found on their website.
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. ∞