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The “die IT-Tag” makes the diversity of the IT world visible

December 11, 2025

On December 9, 2025, 260 IT role models visited 90 schools across Austria, led inspiring workshops in more than 200 classrooms. Read More

The “die IT-Tag” makes the diversity of the IT world visible

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

December 8, 2025

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

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New Journal Article in MDPI’s Nitrogen

December 3, 2025

Our colleague Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research and a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, has published a journal article titled Nitrogen Fertilization: Field Performance of an Amino-Acid-Based Fertilizer in Sessile Oak Reforestation ... Read More

SBA @ BSidesVienna 0x7E9

November 25, 2025

SBA Research has proudly supported BSidesVienna as a Gold Sponsor for several years. We’re committed to fostering independent security research and collaboration within the cybersecurity community, and BSidesVienna is an excellent platform for advancing these goals. This year our colleagues Fabian Funder and Mathias Tausig, gave insightful talks… Read More

SBA @ European Virtual Human Twins

November 21, 2025

End of October, Rudolf Mayer, senior researcher at SBA Research, represented the dAIbetes EU project at the EU's high-level event on the European Virtual Human Twins (VHT) Initiative in Brussels, Belgium, which aims to accelerate innovation and making personalised medicine a reality through virtual human twins. ... Read More

New paper on Agentic Knowledge Graph based RAG Framework for Automated Security Analysis

November 20, 2025

Our colleague Andreas Ekelhart, key researcher and Applied Research Lead at SBA Research, published a new paper titled AgCyRAG: an Agentic Knowledge Graph based RAG Framework for Automated Security Analysis. Read More

Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

November 19, 2025

Global Collection of User Data Was Possible Through a – Now Resolved – Privacy Vulnerability. Computer scientists from the University of Vienna and SBA Research have uncovered a significant privacy vulnerability in WhatsApp’s Contact Discovery mechanism. Exploiting this weakness, they were able to perform an unprecedented global enumeration of all… Read More

SBA @ 2nd KIRAS & K-PASS (KuK) Expert Conference

November 18, 2025

At the 2nd joint KIRAS and K-PASS (KuK) Expert Conference Markus Klemen, CEO of SBA Research, presented the project ASOC – Towards an Academic Security Operations Center. ... Read More

New Article in Elsevier Computer & Security

November 17, 2025

Our colleague Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research and a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, has published a journal article titled "Obfuscation Detection using Matrix Complexity Features of Binary Grayscale Images" in Elsevier's Journal Computers & Security ... Read More

Best Paper Award @ RAID 2025

November 14, 2025

Researchers from SBA Research, the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna and the UniVie Doctoral School Computer Science, have been honored with the Best Paper Award at the 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses… Read More

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