Floragasse 7 – 5th floor, 1040 Vienna

SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Upcoming Events:

OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup x SBA Security Meetup
31.03.2026
SBA @ SAINT 2026
10.04.2026
securepizza.club 2026
16.04.2026

Recent News:

ÖVP-Hack – SBA Research as one of three Experts

1,300 gigabytes of data were stolen from the ÖVP server. SBA Research as one of three Experts explain how the attack took place and how you can protect yourself. But keep in mind: “There are technical ways to minimize the scale of such attacks, but there is no one hundred… Read More
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SBA Security Advisory – Ping Identity Agentless Integration Kit – Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) (CVE-2019-13564)

Ping Identity Agentless Integration Kit before 1.5 is susceptible to Reflected Cross-site Scripting at the /as/authorization.oauth2 endpoint due to improper encoding of an arbitrarily submitted HTTP GET parameter name. We recommend to update Ping Identity Agentless Integration Kit to version 1.5 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More
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Ludwig Kampel @ CD-MAKE2019

Ludwig Kampel joined the International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction (CD-MAKE) 2019, a conference aiming to bridge and connect the domains of  data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation as well as data protection, safety ans security amongst others. On the third day of the… Read More

Philipp Schindler kicks off Blockchain Summer School

The first International Summer School on Security & Privacy for Blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technologies started with the official opening remarks from Edgar Weippl and Brigitte Lutz (City of Vienna). Philipp Schindler then kicked off the main track with his talk on “Building Blocks for Blockchains and Distributed… Read More

Katharina Pfeffer speaks about Usable Security at Dagstuhl Seminar

Katharina Pfeffer joined the Seminar on Software Protection Decision Support and Evaluation Methodologies taking place from August 11-16 at Schloss Dagstuhl. This Dagstuhl Seminar on Software Protection Decision Support and Evaluation Methodologies addressed open challenges in developing a holistic, generally applicable methodology and tool support to model and evaluate… Read More

IMPACT 2019 & House Warming

Artificial Intelligence – certainly one of the most hyped topics of our time – has been the motto of this year´s IMPACT. Bestseller author Karl Olsberg´s highly anticipated keynote on “Artificial Intelligence and Human Stupidity” opened the door for a lively discussion shedding light on myth and reality. Read More

Kathrin Strasser-Weippl becomes Key Researcher at SBA

Kathrin is a medical oncologist at the Center of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Wilhelminenspital, Wien. Kathrin is the medical lead of the project “Semantische Suche” run by the Clinical Research Center of Wiener Krankenanstaltenverbund. The goal of this project is to extract data (diagnoses, medication, services etc.) from unstructured… Read More

Full house at the 5th SBA Security Meetup!

We had a great time at the 5th security Meetup @ SBA Research! +50 participants 6 Application Security Design Patterns Good time at our terrace Don’t miss our next meetup on 04 September!Topic: “Secure Credential Management with Vault in Kubernetes”… Read More