SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The Josef Ressel Center for Unified Threat Intelligence on Targeted Attacks (TARGET) is being expanded in its third year. A new module is added, which is executed SBA Research, an external partner from Vienna, and the existing modules scope is extended. Georg Merzdovnik and Edgar Weippl work on security aspects… Read More
Markus Klemen gives the keynote speech “Employee Loyalty – a Feasible Goal?” at the (ISC)² Secure Summit DACH in Zürich today. Further details can be found here.
Artemios G. Voyiatzis is representing SBA Research at the Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings on Digital Forensics (DF) and Teaching/Learning (TL) of the EU-funded project “Strengthening European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime” (SENTER). The meetings take place on June 26-27, 2017 in Esslingen, Germany.
Our book on blockchains has just been published: Blocks and Chains: Introduction to Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and Their Consensus Mechanisms. Aljosha Judmayer, Nicholas Stifter, Katharina Krombholz, and Edgar Weippl… Read More
Adrian Dabrowski is today at the ETSI in Sophia Antipolis, presenting at the ETSI 5G Security workshop, part of the Security Week at ETSI. You can find the Agenda here.
Today, Martin Schmiedecker presents at the Linz Cyber Security Conference 2017 on “Online Anonymity beyond Tor”. The slides can be found here. You can find the full schedule here. 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. ∞