SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Christian Kudera is selected as one of 15 NGI Explorers from a total of 130 applicants. NGI Explorers [1] is the program to launch Europe’s best Internet talent into technology expeditions to the United States, catalyzing the impact of their disruptive ideas. Explorers get immersed in… Read More
Stefan Jakoubi and Yvonne Poul gave a talk on “Supply Chain Risk Management” at the LSZ event on “Industry 4.0”, taking place on November 21, 2019 in Graz. Read more
The submission deadline has been extended until November 25, 2019! Submit now and join the family: https://sec4dev.io/call-for-proposals Made for the makers We focus on practical, applicable, hands-on, and security-related contents for folks involved in software development. Apart from technical aspects, sec4dev also covers organizational, legal, and… Read More
Philipp Reisinger gives a talk at the “Security in the Age of Industry 4.0 and Digitization” hosted by CONECT on November 20, 2019. Current developments including progressive digitization, connectivity and industrial evolution represent great threats to economy and society. OT security has become crucial to preventing increased vulnerability. Philipp… Read More
Ludwig Kampel joined the conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences 2019 (MACIS), http://macis2019.gtu.edu.tr/ ,which took place from 13th to 15th November at Gebze Technical University in Gebze/Istanbul. MACIS is a biennial conference aiming to bridge the domains of data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation as well… Read More
From November 11-13th, Rudolf Mayer and Walid Fdhila are presenting the EU H2020 project FeatureCloud, in which SBA Research is responsible for Security and Privacy aspects, at Convergence, the Global Blockchain Congress in Malaga. FeatureCloud provides privacy preserving federated machine learning and block chaining for reduced cyber risks in… Read More
On Fri, Nov 8, 2019, Amy Mahn and Andreas Lerch visited SBA Research on a mission from the US Embassy in Vienna and were welcomed by Markus Klemen. Amy Mahn is an international policy specialist working in the NIST Applied Cybersecurity Division. Amy’s primary focus in this role is support of… Read More
A whole delegation of SBA Research folks participated in the IT-SECX 2019 conference on Friday, November 9, 2019 at the FH St. Pölten. Johanna Ullrich spoke about Monocultures and Diversity in IT, while Reinhard Kugler and Andreas Bernauer gave a talk on Vertrauen ist gut, Pentests sind besser: Sicherheitsprobleme in Active… Read More
SBA supports the organization of the Mozilla Security Research Summit on November 8, 2019. The event will be hosted as part of Mozilla’s Security Engineering University Relationship Framework (SURF) initiative. In addition to Mozilla engineers discussing current research problems, the day will also include some high-caliber talks from security… Read More
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞
New paper “Send and Pretend: Exploiting Transcript Consistency Issues in End-to-End Encrypted Group Chats”, was recently accepted for the 35th USENIX Security Symposium. The paper is a collaboration between SBA, the University of Vienna, and the Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (IT:U). It was authored by Gabriel K. Gegenhuber, Moritz Grefner, Maximilian Günther, Matthäus Wininger, David Schmidt, and Aljosha Judmayer. ∞
The IRIS web application in version 2.4.26 and possibly others is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in the assets (CVE-2026-16969), custom attributes (CVE-2026-18360) and datastore upload (CVE-2026-18361) functions. ∞