SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
As guests in the Discover CEE blog from Raiffeisen Bank International Stefan Jakoubi and Philipp Reisinger discuss benefits and risks, the shared responsibility model and their top three takeaways. Read up on the details here!
The ARES 2020 Conference, hosted by SBA Research, is currently taking place as all-digital conference. We are very happy to presenting a diverse program to more than 300 participants from over 43 countries, including: 27 full papers (acceptance rate: 21.26%) and 6 short papers 82 workshop… Read More
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
“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
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
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
Edgar Weippl discusses points of criticism regarding data security, use and distribution of the social video-sharing network TikTok in his interview with austrian news TV Café Puls. Watch the interview at Café Puls.
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
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
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
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. ∞
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. ∞