SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our colleague Andreas Ekelhart, key researcher and Applied Research Lead at SBA Research and researcher at the Research Group Security & Privacy at University of Vienna,, presented his conference paper titled AgentO: An Ontology for Modeling Agentic AI Systems at the 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026) in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Read More
Our colleague Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research and a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, has published a journal article titled “Fractals in Neural Networks: Introducing a New Class of Activation Functions” in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations in collaboration with the CD lab AsTra. Read More
Users can create alerts for customers that are not assigned to them. This can be abused to falsely attribute fake alerts to customers. In combination with Cross-Site Scripting, this can also be used to exfiltrate alerts from other customers. Read More
The IRIS web application is vulnerable to a Cross-site request forgery attack, because it uses the HTTP method GET to change state on the server. Read More
The IRIS web application does not properly validate uploaded files. It can therefore be misused to host phishing pages, amongst other things. This also creates an instance of a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Read More
The IRIS web application contains a weakness where an attacker can misuse it to redirect the user to a malicious website controlled by an attacker. Read More
This May, SBA Research opens its doors to the European research community. From 20–21 May 2026, we are hosting the ERCIM Spring Meetings at our Vienna offices, welcoming representatives from member institutions across Europe for two days of strategic discussions, board deliberations, and collaborative exchange. It is a moment we have been looking forward to, and one that reflects the strength of the partnerships we have built over the years within ERCIM. Read More
Michael has been working in application security for many years, but his commitment to the community goes well beyond his day-to-day work at SBA Research. ∞
A new paper, “Systematization of Knowledge: The Design Space of Digital Payment Systems with Potential for CBD,” led by first author Judith Senn, research assistant at the University of Innsbruck, and co-authored by Aljosha Judmayer, researcher at the University of Vienna, Nicholas Stifter, researcher at SBA Research, ... ∞
Last week, our annual event for partners and friends of SBA Research, IMPACT, brought together experts, practitioners, and decision-makers from research, industry, and the open-source community. The afternoon provided an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in security, AI, and innovation, celebrate our long-standing relationships, and mark 20 years of SBA Research’s contributions to cutting-edge cybersecurity and trustworthy digital innovation. ∞