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Sebastian Schrittwieser featured in article on Router Cyberattacks

April 20, 2026

Sebastian Schrittwieser, researcher at SBA Research and the University of Vienna, was recently featured in an article by futurezone.at discussing large-scale cyberattacks targeting internet routers. Read More

Sebastian Schrittwieser featured in article on Router Cyberattacks

ACSC Workshop: Deobfuscation and Reverse Engineering of Protected Code

April 16, 2026

SBA Research was pleased to host the first workshop of the year in collaboration with the Austrian Cyber Security Challenge (ACSC). The session took place in a hybrid format, welcoming participants both on-site in Vienna and online via Discord. Read More

ACSC Workshop: Deobfuscation and Reverse Engineering of Protected Code

Congratulations to Edgar Weippl on his Appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science!

April 8, 2026

We warmly congratulate Edgar Weippl, Scientific Director of SBA Research and Head of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, on his appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science. Read More

2nd OWASP Security Meetup @ SBA

April 7, 2026

On March 31, our 2nd OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup took place, featuring three excellent speaker sharing insights on OT-Security and a bit more. Read More

SBA @ BOB 2026

April 4, 2026

In March, our colleague Michael Koppmann, senior information security consultant at SBA Research, gave an insightful talk titled Illegal States Are My Favorite Security Vulnerabilities (to Delete at Compile Time) at the BOB 2026 Conference in Berlin, Germany. Read More

Bernhard Garn Co-Edits New Springer Volume on Hybrid Threats and Disaster Dynamics

April 3, 2026

We are pleased to announce the publication of Dynamics of Disasters: Hybrid Threats, a new volume in the Springer Optimization and Its Applications series. The book was published in Spring 2026 and is co-edited by Dimitris E. Simos, Panos M. Pardalos, Ilias S. Kotsireas, Bernhard Garn, senior researcher at SBA Research and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Salzburg and Stefan Wolfgang Pickl. Read More

Congratulations to our key researcher Laura Kovács!

April 2, 2026

We extend our warmest congratulations to our key researcher Laura Kovács on her election as a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), one of Austria's most prestigious scientific institutions. ... Read More

FFG Leadership Visits SBA Research: Karin Tausz and Silvia Laimgruber Explored Our COMET Center

April 1, 2026

SBA Research was delighted to welcome FFG Managing Director Karin Tausz and Head of Division Structural Programmes Silvia Laimgruber to the SBA-K1 NGC COMET Center in Vienna. ... Read More

Congratulations to our key researcher Maria Christakis on receiving the ACM-W Rising Star Award!

March 19, 2026

Maria Christakis has been awarded the 2026 ACM-W Rising Star Award, presented by ACM-W: ACM’s Women in Computing. This prestigious recognition honours outstanding early-career researchers who have made exceptional contributions to the computing field. ... Read More

Congratulations to Gabriel Gegenhuber on Successfully Passing His Rigorosum

March 18, 2026

On February 19, Gabriel Gegenhuber successfully passed his Rigorosum with excellent evaluations, defending his dissertation "Democratizing Measurement of Critical Mobile Infrastructure: Security and Privacy in an Increasingly Centralized Communication Ecosystem" before the committee and PhD supervisor Johanna Ullrich. ... Read More

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