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IMPACT 2025

October 26, 2025

In mid-October, our yearly partner and friends of SBA Research event IMPACT brought together experts, practitioners, and decision-makers from research, industry, and the open-source community. One afternoon with discussion about the latest developments in security, open source, and research and to celebrate our long-standing relationships. This year’s program… Read More

group photo speaker and panelists at impact

SBA Research joins the Linux Foundation Europe

October 22, 2025

We are proud to announce that we joined the Linux Foundation Europe, further strengthening our role within the international open-source community. With this step, we are reinforcing our commitment to advancing security and resilience in digital infrastructures. ... Read More

Distinguished paper award at ACM CCS 2025

October 16, 2025

David Schmidt, PhD student at CD-Lab AsTra, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab, and Edgar Weippl, scientific director at SBA Research and full professor for security & privacy at the University of Vienna, received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. ... Read More

SBA Security Advisory – Checkmk Agent Privilege Escalation via Insecure Temporary Files (CVE-2025-32919)

October 13, 2025

Vulnerability Overview The `win_license` plugin as included in Checkmk agent for Windows versions before 2.4.0p13, 2.3.0p38 and 2.2.0p46, as well as since version 2.1.0b2 and 2.0.0p28 allows low privileged users to escalate privileges to Local System due to insecure use of a temporary folder. Recommended… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – Checkmk Path Traversal (CVE-2025-39664)

October 13, 2025

Vulnerability Overview Checkmk in versions before 2.4.0p13, 2.3.0p38 and 2.2.0p46, as well as since version 2.1.0b1 is prone to a path traversal vulnerability in the report scheduler. Due to an insufficient validation of a file name input, users can store reports in arbitrary locations on the server. Read More

New Paper in ACM Transactions on the Web

October 11, 2025

Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research and TU Vienna, published a paper in ACM Transactions on the Web titled You Shall Not Pass (Without Consent): Enforcing Data Sovereignty with Solid Pods. ... Read More

New white paper on privacy risks, metrics, and governance in synthetic data

October 10, 2025

As part of an IEEE Industry Connection on Synthetic Data our colleague Rudolf Mayer, senior researcher at SBA Research, co-authored a white paper on privacy risks, metrics, and governance in synthetic data. Read More

Visiting Researcher Strengthens Partnership and Research Focus

October 9, 2025

SBA Research was delighted to welcome Dr. Fatma Nur Esirci Oral as a visiting researcher during September 2025. During her stay, Dr. Esirci Oral delivered valuable seminars for our students and junior researchers and led vital discussions with our institute's members. ... Read More

SBA @ heise devSec()

October 8, 2025

Our colleagues Michael Koppmann, senior information security consultat at SBA Research, and Mathias Tausig, information security consultant at SBA Research Research gave two insightful talks on ... Read More

SBA @ LSZ Cyber Crime Forum Graz

October 7, 2025

Our colleagues Nicolas Petri, Information Security Consultant, and Gerald Sendera, Data Protection Supervisor and Legal Counsel, gave an expert talk on Ich wollte nur Software bauen – und jetzt mach ich CRA-Compliance on September 30 at the LSZ Cyber Crime Forum Graz. ... Read More

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