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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:

SBA @ 35th USENIX Security Symposium
12.08.2026 - 14.08.2026
ARES 2026
24.08.2026 - 27.08.2026
SHECURITY Summer School 2026
11.09.2026 - 13.09.2026

Recent News:

SBA Research beim Safer Internet Day

Heute findet bereits zum zwölften Mal der internationale Safer Internet Day statt. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf einem „besseren Internet für Kinder und Jugendliche“, ganz nach dem Motto: „Let’s create a better internet together!“ Katharina Krombholz von SBA Research hat mit zwei Schulklassen Themen rund um “Privatsphäre, Verschlüsselung und co. Read More

ICISSP conference: panel and invited talk

Edgar Weippl organized a panel discussion (Günther Pernul, Stefan Furnell, and Bryan Ford) on Mon Feb 9, 2015 at the ICISSP conference. On Tuesday Edgar gave an invited talk on Research Challenges in Applied and Empirical Information Security Research (as an adhoc substitute for a… Read More

SBA Research @ TU Ball

SBA Research invited Key Researchers and members of the Scientific Board to join us for the ball of the Vienna University of Technology on January 29, 2015 at Hofburg. Stefan Katzenbeisser, Volkmar Lotz, Davide Balzarotti, Engin Kirda and Christopher Kruegel spent this wonderful evening with us. Read More

10K

We are taking part in Syssec's 10Kstudents initiative: "The goal of the 10KStudents challenge is to improve cyber security by teaching Ten Thousand University Students the basic concepts of software vulnerabilities and secure programming. " Read More

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