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Reinhard Kugler held the opening talk of this year’s Hagenberg Forum. He showed current challenges in the automotive domain and how to get started in security testing of electronic control units. Reinhard showed vulnerabilies and testing methods of automotive applications, focusing on… Read More
Im Exemplar des OCG Journals 01/23 durften einige Kolleg:innen der SBA Research mitwirken und ihre Forschung präsentieren. Edgar Weippl schrieb dabei über Österreichs IT-Nachwuchs. “Unbekannte Protokolle testen” hieß der Beitrag von Manuel Leithner. Die ehemalige FEMTech Praktikantin Diana Strauß schrieb während ihrer… Read More
This year’s (ISC)² ISACA Conference 2023 on the 20th of April was themed: “…imagine the problem of IT is solved…. “Real Life” approaches to solving the issue of resource and skills shortages” We were not able to solve… Read More
The “SBArathon” team, consisting of Martin Grottenthaler, Barbara Limbeck-Lilienau, Sebastian Schrittwieser and Fabian Funder took part in the relay race of the 40th Vienna City Marathon on 23 April. They… Read More
On Sunday, April 16, 2023, the 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2023) was held co-located with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. Angelo Gargantini (University… Read More
On the 13th of April, SBA Research hosted a seminar for the Vienna DevOps & Security Meetup group with a topical focus on Cloud Native technologies, DevOps, and Security. Reinhard Kugler, a security expert of MATRIS, contributed to this Meetup with an… Read More
On Sunday, April 16, 2023, the 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2023) was held co-located with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. Angelo Gargantini (University… Read More
On April 4, viewers had the opportunity to catch Sebastian Schrittwieser on the PM Magazine as he discussed strategies for safeguarding against cyberattacks. In this episode, Sebastian delved into the pressing issue of cybersecurity, offering insights into the evolving landscape of online threats and practical tips on how individuals… Read More
On 05.11.2019 the activities for the IETF standardization of “L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System (LDACS)” started by the team Nils Mäurer (DLR), Thomas Gräupl (DLR) and our key researcher Corinna Schmitt (RI CODE, UniBw M). In numerous IETF meetings continuous updates of the document were presented and discussed in… Read More
Senior Researcher Sebastian Schrittwieser was interviewed for the P.M. Wissen magazine on ServusTV. Sebastian shared his knowledge about the use of AI in Social Engineering attacks. He showed how a human voice can be easily cloned and then used for a CEO scam, for example. Furthermore, he explained what… Read More
New paper “Send and Pretend: Exploiting Transcript Consistency Issues in End-to-End Encrypted Group Chats”, was recently accepted for the 35th USENIX Security Symposium. The paper is a collaboration between SBA, the University of Vienna, and the Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (IT:U). It was authored by Gabriel K. Gegenhuber, Moritz Grefner, Maximilian Günther, Matthäus Wininger, David Schmidt, and Aljosha Judmayer. ∞
The IRIS web application in version 2.4.26 and possibly others is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in the assets (CVE-2026-16969), custom attributes (CVE-2026-18360) and datastore upload (CVE-2026-18361) functions. ∞
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our researchers, who were recognized at the University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science's Best-of-the-Best Awards on June 24. ∞