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SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Upcoming Events:

SHECURITY – Hackerinnen Training
25.04.2026
SHECURITY – Info Session: Overview of ISACA Certifications (with a Focus on Security)
28.04.2026
European Resilience Summit Vienna 2026
12.05.2026

Recent News:

SBA Security Advisory – KNX management software ETS – remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2015-8299)

The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in a memcpy operation when parsing specailly crafted KNXnet/IP packets in the Group messages monitor (aka. Falcon). An according proof-of-concept exploit which was tested on an affected ETS version installed on a Windows XP SP3 can be found below. The proof-of-concept exploit generates the UDP packet which triggers the vulnerability and should at least crash the application (it requires python and scapy to run). Read More
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SBA Research übergibt Weihnachtsspende an das Laura Gatner Haus

Die Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen von SBA Research legten zusammen, um für unbegleitete jugendliche Flüchtlinge, die im Laura Gatner Haus der Diakonie leben, Winterjacken und Winterschuhe für die kalte Jahreszeit besorgen zu können. Im Rahmen der Weihnachtsfeier des Laura Gatner Hauses wurde der Scheck im Wert von 3710 € zusammen mit… Read More

Talk at CCC

Ange Albertini will give a talk on Funky File Formats at 31c3 that touches nicely on Adrian’s paper on QR inception (Twitter). Read More

P3F-Projekt im Standard

“Weitaus ernsthafter ist ein Projekt der Wiener IT-Sicherheitsexperten Katharina Krombholz und Adrian Dabrowski. Sie wollen mit dem “P3F”-Projekt das Problem der “analogen Lücke” lösen. … Krombholz und Dabrowski haben schon Kontakte zu großen IT-Konzernen aufgenommen und ihr Projekt beispielsweise bei Facebook vorgestellt.” derStandard.at

Researchers and security testers of SBA Research found a RXSS vulnerability at W3C online tidy services via combinatorial testing

Dimitris Simos, Bernhard Garn of the research team and Severin Winkler, Peter Aufner, Andreas Bernauer of the security testing team of SBA Research found a RXSS vulnerability in W3C online tidy services using combinatorial testing methodologies and demonstrated its applicability to web application security testing. These novel research methods have… Read More

Adrian Dabrowski: Best Student Paper Award – ACSAC 2014

Adrian Dabrwoski received the award for the best student paper at ACSAC 2014 for his paper. You can find a preprint here. Adrian Dabrowski, Nicola Pianta, Thomas Klepp, Martin Mulazzani, and Edgar Weippl. Imsi-Catch Me If You Can: Imsi-Catcher-Catchers. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference… Read More

Cyberangriff: Unternehmen und Behörden proben Ernstfall

‘Edgar Weippl, Wissenschaftlicher Leiter des Wiener Forschungsinstituts für Informationssicherheit SBA Research lobt den Ansatz des Planspiels: “Der Schwerpunkt auf Optimierung der Kommunikation zwischen den Akteuren ist positiv zu betrachten…”‘ (futurezone)

Markus Klemen @ (ISC)2 Security Congress EMEA 2014

Markus Klemen was invited to participate as panelist in the inagurate (ISC)2 Security Congress EMEA 2014, which took place from 9th to 10th of December 2014 in London, UK. The Panel was about “Educating the Future: What Can Employers be Doing?”. (ISC)2 is the global, not-for-profit leader in educating and certifying information security professionals throughout… Read More