SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 21st ICT Security Conference on 25 and 26 June 2025, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. They impressed the audience with their… Read More
Together with sipgate and ISMK Stralsund, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Michael Pucher, researcher at SBA research, discovered and investigated a vulnerability in the Voice of LTE (VoLTE) stack that is broadly used within MediaTek-based smartphones. Read More
In the Mediatek modem, there is a possible system crash due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote denial of service, if a UE has connected to a rogue base station controlled by the attacker, with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Read More
In 2025, the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) once again recognizes outstanding academic work in the fields of Computer Science and Business Informatics with the OCG Förderpreis and the OCG Förderpreis-FH. This year’s OCG Förderpreis goes to our research colleague Daryna Oliynyk for… Read More
Bluetooth Low Energy is one of the most widely used protocols used in Internet of Things (IoT) and multimedia devices. Security issues in these applications are prone to affect a significant number of end users and companies alike. In their latest work applying the Combinatorial Security Testing (CST) approach… Read More
The research on Combinatorial Security Testing (CST) by the MATRIS group of SBA Research is amongst the top five nominations for the Houska prize, Austria's largest private award for application-oriented research, in the category non-university research. ... Read More
We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the 2025 Swift Provider – Customer Security Programme Assessment label by Swift. This prestigious recognition highlights our commitment to maintaining high cybersecurity standards and excellence in customer security assessments. The label was granted following a rigorous… Read More
The Laravel framework versions between 11.9.0 and 11.35.1 are susceptible to reflected cross-site scripting due to an improper encoding of route parameters in the debug-mode error page. Read More
The Laravel framework versions between 11.9.0 and 11.35.1 are susceptible to reflected cross-site scripting due to an improper encoding of request parameters in the debug-mode error page. Read More
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 22st ICT Security Conference on 16 and 17 September 2026, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. ∞
A new paper, “Automated Reasoning for Indistinguishability in the CCSA,” co-authored by Laura Kovács, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and Matteo Maffei, key researcher at SBA Research and Professor at TU Wien, has been accepted for presentation at the 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). ∞
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞