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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 @ Security Forum Hagenberg
13.05.2025 - 14.05.2025
SBA Security Meetup – Secure Coding with Extra SLSA
15.05.2025
SHECURITY – Hackerinnen Training
28.05.2025

Recent News:

NGI Map: SBA is excited to join the NGI ecosystem!

SBA Research is happy to announce that we are now part of the interactive NGI stakeholder Map. The NGI Map provides information about active participants in the European NGI initiative and is one pillar in advancing the NGI ecosystem. The NGI initiative funds European innovative research projects that make… Read More

Resilience and Digital Agriculture

“From robotics and sensor technology to questions of biology and economics, all the way to safety, ethical and social implications, everything comes together here.” With this quote Thomas Neubauer introduces the relevance of resilience, digital agriculture and security in an interview with “Der Standard” & “… Read More
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Exploiting KeePassRPC – SBA Student finds Vulnerability

While taking a university course on security, Philipp Danzinger discovered two critical related vulnerabilities in KeePassRPC, an addon for the popular password manager KeePass. Both vulnerabilities allow a malicious web site to read and leak (unlocked) KeePass databases, while being very hard or impossible to detect, provided the KeePassRPC addon is… Read More

System Administrator Appreciation Day

The System Administrator Appreciation Day is an annual commemoration for system administrators. It was invented by Ted Kekatos and is held on the last Friday in July since 2000. Kekatos was inspired by a Hewlett-Packard ad by employees thanking a system administrator with flowers and fruit baskets for installing new… Read More
System Administrator Appreciation Day

We_0wn_Y0u got 2nd place at ENOWARS 4

In the online attack / defense CTF competition ENOWARS4, We_0wn_Y0u got the 2nd place out of 154 teams! A big thanks to ENOFLAG and TU Berlin for hosting the event! Congratulations to all members of… Read More
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EU H2020 Project My Health – My Data successfully completed

The Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action MyHealth – MyData (MHMD) developed an open biomedical information network centered on the connection between organizations and individuals. Key elements of this innovation, implemented through this new model, include: Privacy-preserving data publishing via synthetic data Blockchain Dynamic consent Personal… Read More
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Kick-Off Meeting BRIDGE Research Project GASTRIC

The kick-off meeting of the FFG BRIDGE 1 project GASTRIC (Gene Anonymisation and Synthetisation for Privacy) took place on July 15th, 2020 at SBA Research. The GASTRIC project addresses the challenge to preserve the privacy of individuals taking part in microbiome studies… Read More
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Best in-use Paper Award

The paper “Supporting complex decision making by semantic technologies“ by Stefan Fenz has won the best in-use paper award at ESWC20. ESWC20 was held online from June 2 – June 4, 2020. Congrats! You can find the paper here.