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

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ARES 2026
24.08.2026 - 27.08.2026
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11.09.2026 - 13.09.2026
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15.09.2026 - 16.09.2026

Recent News:

SBA Security Advisory – Teltonika RUT9XX – Missing Access Control to UART Root Terminal (CVE-2018-17534)

Teltonika RUT9XX routers with firmware before 00.04.233 provide a root terminal on a serial interface without proper access control. This allows attackers with physical access to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. We recommend to update Teltonika RUT9XX routers to version RUT9XX_R_00.04.233 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More
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SBA Security Advisory – Teltonika RUT9XX – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CVE-2018-17532)

Teltonika RUT9XX routers with firmware before 00.04.233 are prone to multiple unauthenticated OS command injection vulnerabilities in autologin.cgi and hotspotlogin.cgi due to insufficient user input sanitization. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. We recommend to update Teltonika RUT9XX routers to version RUT9XX_R_00.05.01.1 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More
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(ISC)2 / ISACA Conference 2018 at TU Wien

Security & Safety: 2 schools of thought – 1 goal? The (ISC)2 / ISACA Conference hosted in TU Wien´s dome hall on October 11, 2018 counted a total of 170 participants and 9 talks contributing experience and knowledge from different fields. The agenda addressed… Read More

Edgar Weippl holds Keynote at SST

Edgar Weippl gave a keynote on Research Methods and Examples of Research in Distributed Systems Security at the SST 2018 in Osijek, Croatia. Abstract: Over the past few years an increasing number of descriptive works have helped explain complex phenomena in the area of distributed systems… Read More

Martina Lindorfer is awarded the 2018 Cor Baayen Award.

Martina Lindorfer was selected as the winner of the 2018 Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award. The award committee recognises Martina's impressive achievements and outstanding quality of her research in the field of systems security, especially the analysis of malicious software and mobile operating system vulnerabilities. The ceremony takes place on Oct 10 in Goteburg. Edgar Weippl was her supervisor and we are happy that after some time as a PostDoc at UC Santa Barbara she returns to Vienna on a tenure track position. Read More

Alexei Zamyatin at Scaling Bitcoins 2018

Alexei Zamyatin and Dominik Harz (Imperail College London) gave an invited talk entitled „Interoperability with Cryptocurrency-backed Tokens“ at Scaling Bitcoins 2018 in Tokyo. Slides Paper