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:

SHECURITY Summer School 2026
11.09.2026 - 13.09.2026
SBA @ ScapyCon
15.09.2026 - 16.09.2026
IKT-Sicherheitskonferenz 2026 & Young Researchers’ Day
16.09.2026 - 17.09.2026

Recent News:

Password-Hardened Encryption Revisited

Dominique Schröder, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor of Privacy Enhancing Technologies at TU Wien published a new paper titled "Password-Hardened Encryption Revisited" which was presented at the 31st ASIACRYPT 2025 Melbourne, VIC, Australia. ... Read More
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Daryna Oliynyk @ ESSAI

At the end of November, our colleague Daryna Oliynyk, a researcher at SBA Research and the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, was invited to speak at the European Symposium on Security and AI (ESSAI) in Rennes, France. She presented the joint paper "Attackers Can Do Better: Over- and Understated Factors of Model Stealing Attacks", co-authored with Rudolf Mayer and Andreas Rauber. ... Read More
Selfportrait of Daryna at the event

Congratulations! MLDM colleagues qualified for the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship Finale

Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... Read More
MLDM winner with certificates

SBA Security Meetup Becomes Official OWASP Vienna Chapter

We are pleased to announce that the SBA Security Meetup is now officially operating as the OWASP Vienna Chapter. While the name has evolved, our mission remains unchanged: strengthening the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and experience within the information security community. What started as the SBA… Read More
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SBA @ ACSAC

Florian Holzbauer, researcher at SBA Research, and Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and the Research Group Security and Privacy at the University of Vienna, attended the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2025 in Hawaii, USA. ... Read More
CTF Certificate Ceremony

1st Working Group Meeting on Sustainability & Computer Science @OCG

On December 2, 2025, the OCG Working Group on Sustainability & Computer Science marked the beginning of a new phase of collaboration with an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary kick-off meeting. Chaired by Kevin Mallinger, lead of the CORE Research Group at SBA Research, the meeting focused on the central theme “AI and Farming” – an area where sustainable computing has the potential to create significant impact... Read More
working group members sitting around a table and discussing