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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:

Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 1
18.11.2025 - 20.11.2025
Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 2
26.11.2025 - 27.11.2025
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09.12.2025

Recent News:

Young Researchers´Day @ ICT Security Conference 2019

A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work in the course of the ICT Security Conference on October 1-2, 2019. Katharina Pfeffer (SBA) introduced her research in the area of Usable Security. The conference counting a total of 2500 attendees once more showed that cyber attacks present a… Read More

SBA @ 2nd Conference on Urban Resilience

The 2nd Conference on Urban Resilience, organized by the Czech Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics Institute (CIIRC), targeted the interdisciplinary approach of fostering technological innovation in an emerging field such as Resilience. In regard to the specific focus on increasing the urban capabilities to tackle present and… Read More

Tomasz Miksa @ IEEE eScience 2019

Tomasz Miksa  and Bernhard Gößwein presented their paper on Data identification and process monitoring for reproducible earth observation research at the 15th IEEE eScience conference in San Diego. Earth observation researchers use specialised computing services for satellite image processing offered by various data… Read More

IKT-Sicherheitskonferenz & Young Researchers´ Day 2019

SBA Research organizes jointly with the FH Upper Austria and the Austrian Computer Society the Young Researchers’ Day, co-located with the IKT Sicherheitskonferenz 2019. The Young Researchers’ Day brings together information security graduates from several Austrian institutions. For… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – Easy FancyBox WordPress Plugin – Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) (CVE-2019-16524)

The Easy FancyBox WordPress Plugin Version 1.8.17 is susceptible to Stored Cross-site Scripting in the Settings > Media admin page /wp-admin/options-media.php due to improper encoding of arbitrarily submitted setting parameters. The vulnerability affects every publicly accessible page of the WordPress site. We recommend to update Easy FancyBox WordPress Plugin to version 1.8.18 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More
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Philipp Reisinger @ Klub Logischer Denker

Philipp Reisinger gives a talk on the mitigation of cyber security risks in a connected world at the “logical thinkers club” on September 25, 2019. Logical Thinkers Club