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Two cover articles in iX heise magazine by Alexander Schatten

January 29, 2024

Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, published two cover articles regarding the ESG software market in heise iX. The ESG reporting obligations are coming In 2024 and 2025, many SMEs will be subject to new non-financial reporting obligations on the environmental and human… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – CloudLinux CageFS – Insufficiently Restricted Proxy Command (CVE-2020-36772)

January 26, 2024

CloudLinux CageFS 7.0.8-2 or below insufficiently restricts file paths supplied to the sendmail proxy command. This allows local users to read and write arbitrary files of certain file formats outside the CageFS environment. We recommend to update CloudLinux CageFS to version 7.1.1-1 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – CloudLinux CageFS – Token Disclosure (CVE-2020-36771)

January 26, 2024

CloudLinux CageFS 7.1.1-1 or below passes the authentication token as a command line argument. In some configurations this allows local users to view the authentication token via the process list and gain code execution as another user. We recommend to update CloudLinux CageFS to version 7.1.2-2 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More

Interesting Talk @ CGIAR

January 25, 2024

Sebastian Raubitzek and Kevin Mallinger have been invited for a special research seminar in CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) about the application of complexity science in Artificial Intelligence. The talk focused on the possibility to enhance AI capacities for sustainability and productivity… Read More

New chairman for the SBA Scientific Advisory Board

January 24, 2024

Christopher Kruegel, a longtime collaborator, will chair our Scientific Advisory Board. He has published more than 89 papers at the 4 major security conferences and founded Lastline (later acquired by VMware) by building on the results of Ulrich Bayer‘s… Read More

ERC grant awardees joined new COMET proposal NGC

January 24, 2024

We are pleased to announce that Maria Christakis joined SBA’s new COMET proposal Next Generation Cybersecurity (SBA-K1 NGC) as member of the scientific and innovation board, Laura Kovacs and Matteo Maffei joined as key researchers. Maria Christakis’s ERC grant focuses on improving software testing,… Read More

ERC grant awardees joined new COMET proposal NGC

Anastasia Pustozerova @Vienna Deep Learning Meetup

January 17, 2024

Anastasia Pustozerova is researcher at SBA Research and gave an interesting talk on Differential Privacy for Machine Learning. Talk Abstract Machine Learning requires a lot of data to train effective models. Data owners might not be willing to share the data because of its private nature. Differential Privacy can… Read More

Distance-based Linkage of Personal Microbiome Records for Identification and its Privacy Implications

January 1, 2024

In the paper, we explore privacy attacks via linkage of samples of human microbiome, and extend on the current threat landscape by a more effective linkage attack. We further discuss mitigation actions. Our paper was published in “Computers & Security“, a Q1 ranked journal by… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – MOKOSmart MKGW1 Gateway – Improper Session Management (CVE-2023-51059)

December 21, 2023

MOKOSmart MKGW1 Gateway devices with firmware version 1.1.1 do not provide an adequate session management for the administrative web interface. This allows adjacent attackers with access to the management network to read and modify the configuration of the device. Read More

SAVE THE DATE NATIONAL QCI DAY VIENNA 2024

December 21, 2023

Be part of the Quantum Revolution! AIT Austrian Institute of Technology invites you to the first National Quantum Communication and Information (QCI) Day. Join them at the House of Industry (Industriellenvereinigung) in Vienna. From January 24-26, 2024, at the Federation of Austrian Industry, Vienna. Dive… Read More

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