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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
19.02.2026
SHECURITY – Hackerinnen Training
02.03.2026
SBA @ NDC Security
04.03.2026 - 05.03.2026

Recent News:

1st Working Group Meeting on Sustainability & Computer Science @OCG

On December 2, 2025, the OCG Working Group on Sustainability & Computer Science marked the beginning of a new phase of collaboration with an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary kick-off meeting. Chaired by Kevin Mallinger, lead of the CORE Research Group at SBA Research, the meeting focused on the central theme “AI and Farming” – an area where sustainable computing has the potential to create significant impact... Read More
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New Journal Article in MDPI’s Nitrogen

Our colleague Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research and a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, has published a journal article titled Nitrogen Fertilization: Field Performance of an Amino-Acid-Based Fertilizer in Sessile Oak Reforestation  ... Read More
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SBA @ BSidesVienna 0x7E9

SBA Research has proudly supported BSidesVienna as a Gold Sponsor for several years. We’re committed to fostering independent security research and collaboration within the cybersecurity community, and BSidesVienna is an excellent platform for advancing these goals. This year our colleagues Fabian Funder and Mathias Tausig, gave insightful talks… Read More
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SBA @ European Virtual Human Twins

End of October, Rudolf Mayer, senior researcher at SBA Research, represented the dAIbetes EU project at the EU's high-level event on the European Virtual Human Twins (VHT) Initiative in Brussels, Belgium, which aims to accelerate innovation and making personalised medicine a reality through virtual human twins. ... Read More
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Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

Global Collection of User Data Was Possible Through a – Now Resolved – Privacy Vulnerability. Computer scientists from the University of Vienna and SBA Research have uncovered a significant privacy vulnerability in WhatsApp’s Contact Discovery mechanism. Exploiting this weakness, they were able to perform an unprecedented global enumeration of all… Read More
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New Article in Elsevier Computer & Security

Our colleague Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research and a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, has published a journal article titled "Obfuscation Detection using Matrix Complexity Features of Binary Grayscale Images" in Elsevier's Journal Computers & Security ... Read More
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Best Paper Award @ RAID 2025

Researchers from SBA Research, the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna and the UniVie Doctoral School Computer Science, have been honored with the Best Paper Award at the 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses… Read More
Gabriel Gegenhuber with best paper award from raid 2025 on stage