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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:

securepizza.club
05.11.2026
SBA @ heise CLC 26
10.11.2026
SBA @ KubeCon & CloudNativeCon
09.11.2026 - 12.11.2026

Recent News:

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

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
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Interesting Talk @ CGIAR

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

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
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ERC grant awardees joined new COMET proposal NGC

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

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

SAVE THE DATE NATIONAL QCI DAY VIENNA 2024

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
SAVE THE DATE NATIONAL QCI DAY VIENNA 2024

Tomasz Miksa @Bio-IT World Europe Conference

On November 30, Tomasz Miksa presented a compelling talk with the title “More Automation, More Machine-Actionability: Less Bureaucracy,” at the Bio-IT World Europe Conference & Expo. Focusing on the escalating need for computing power in life sciences, Miksa highlighted the challenges of… Read More

Matthias Eckhart wins 2023 ESA Technology Transfer Competition

Matthias Eckhart is one of the winners of the 2023 ESA Technology Transfer Competition, jointly organized by the European Space Agency and Brimatech Services GmbH. His technology transfer idea “AI-Enhanced Security-Aware Engineering for Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems” leverages synergies between machine learning-based… Read More
Matthias Eckhart winning the 2023 ESA Technology Transfer Competition