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Upcoming Events:

Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 1

05.10.2026 - 07.10.2026

Linux Plumbers Conference 2026

05.10.2026 - 07.10.2026

IMPACT 2026

08.10.2026

Stefan Jakoubi introduces strategies for technical and organisational protection of trade secrets

October 24, 2019

Stefan Jakoubi gives a talk at the annual IT-LAW.AT symposium on November 28, 2019. This year´s event will circle around trade secrets vs. transparency, security, espionage and GDPR. Read more

SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – All in One SEO Pack – Stored XSS (CVE-2019-16520)

October 23, 2019

The all-in-one-seo-pack plugin before 3.2.7 for WordPress (aka All in One SEO Pack) is susceptible to Stored XSS due to improper encoding of the SEO-specific description for posts provided by the plugin via unsafe placeholder replacement. We recommend to update the all-in-one-seo-pack plugin to version 3.2.7 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – Broken Link Checker – Reflected XSS (CVE-2019-16521)

October 23, 2019

The broken-link-checker plugin through 1.11.8 for WordPress (aka Broken Link Checker) is susceptible to Reflected XSS due to improper encoding and insertion of an HTTP GET parameter into HTML. The filter function on the page listing all detected broken links can be exploited by providing an XSS payload in the s_filter GET parameter in a filter_id=search request. NOTE: this is an end-of-life product. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – EU Cookie Law (GDPR) – Stored XSS (CVE-2019-16522)

October 23, 2019

The eu-cookie-law plugin through 3.0.6 for WordPress (aka EU Cookie Law (GDPR)) is susceptible to Stored XSS due to improper encoding of several configuration options in the admin area and the displayed cookie consent message. This affects Font Color, Background Color, and the Disable Cookie text. An attacker with high privileges can attack other users. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – Events Manager – Stored XSS (CVE-2019-16523)

October 23, 2019

The events-manager plugin through 5.9.5 for WordPress (aka Events Manager) is susceptible to Stored XSS due to improper encoding and insertion of data provided to the attribute map_style of shortcodes (locations_map and events_map) provided by the plugin. Read More

Edgar Weippl speaks about Security in Distributed Systems

October 18, 2019

Edgar Weippl gave a presentation on Security in Distributed Systems at the technology workshop for the financial industry “Empowered Edge für Banken und Versicherungen”. Read more

SBA Research is the first Austrian company in the CONCORDIA Course landscape!

October 15, 2019

Let’s work together to improve cyber security in the European Union! Concordia partners, both from industry and academia, put together their offer for courses aimed at developing cybersecurity skills. “Towards a European Education Ecosystem for Cybersecurity” Concordia at a glance. Read More

Matthias Eckhart speaks about ICS Security at the Austrian Disaster Research Days 2019

October 14, 2019

Matthias Eckhart gives a talk at the Austrian Disaster Research Days 2019 about the state of industrial control systems (ICS) security. Read more

Tomasz Miksa holds keynote on PKOS19

October 11, 2019

Tomasz Miksa gave a keynote on “Engaging researchers with research data management through machine-actionable Data Management Plans” during the “Pomorska Konferencja Open Science (PKOS)” in Gdańsk, Poland. In his talk he discussed challenges in rolling out systems supporting open science and explained why machine-actionable Data Management Plans play… Read More

Young Researchers´Day @ ICT Security Conference 2019

October 8, 2019

A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work in the course of the ICT Security Conference on October 1-2, 2019. Katharina Pfeffer (SBA) introduced her research in the area of Usable Security. The conference counting a total of 2500 attendees once more showed that cyber attacks present a… Read More

SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
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Stefan Jakoubi introduces strategies for technical and organisational protection of trade secrets

SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – All in One SEO Pack – Stored XSS (CVE-2019-16520)

SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – Broken Link Checker – Reflected XSS (CVE-2019-16521)

SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – EU Cookie Law (GDPR) – Stored XSS (CVE-2019-16522)

SBA Security Advisory – WordPress Plugin – Events Manager – Stored XSS (CVE-2019-16523)

Edgar Weippl speaks about Security in Distributed Systems

SBA Research is the first Austrian company in the CONCORDIA Course landscape!

Matthias Eckhart speaks about ICS Security at the Austrian Disaster Research Days 2019

Tomasz Miksa holds keynote on PKOS19

Young Researchers´Day @ ICT Security Conference 2019

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