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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.

Upcoming Events:

Mini-Coaching – Shecurity, we’re taking part
03.06.2026
Hiroshima’s Message for Tech Students and Innovators Today
16.06.2026
SBA @ OWASP AppSec EU
25.06.2026 - 26.06.2026

Recent News:

PhD defense: Adrian Dabrowski

Adrian Dabrowski successfully defended his PhD thesis “Security and Privacy in Large-scale Infrastructure”. Thorsten Holz and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma were the external evaluators, Matteo Maffei the committee chair and Edgar Weippl the supervisor. Congratulations!… Read More

One step ahead of hackers…

The computer scientists Edgar Weippl and his team calculate threat scenarios for critical infrastructure and industrial plants. The findings are used to improve protection. Read more in the DiePresse. Die Presse – printed edtion… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – phpWhois – PHP Code Injection (CVE-2015-5243)

phpWhois and some of its forks in versions before 5.1.0 are prone to a code injection vulnerability due to insufficient sanitization of returned WHOIS data. This allows attackers controlling the WHOIS information of a requested domain to execute arbitrary PHP code in the context of the application. We recommend to update phpWhois to version jsmitty12: 5.1.0 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More
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Dimitris Simos joins the editorial board of Mathematics in Computer Science

Dimitris Simos was invited to join the editorial board of the Mathematics in Computer Science (MCS) journal published and distributed by Springer. MCS publishes high-quality original research papers on the development of theories and methods for computer and information sciences, the design, implementation, and analysis of algorithms and… Read More

SoftwareentwicklerInnen für Kooperationsprojekt mit Stiwa gesucht

Für ein Kooperationsprojekt mit unserem Unternehmenspartner Stiwa suchen wir SoftwareentwicklerInnen mit Schwerpunkt .Net-Programmierung, welche im Bereich Automation arbeiten möchten. Nach Vereinbarung besteht die Möglichkeit die ausgeschriebenen Aufgaben im Rahmen von Forschungskooperationen (Masterarbeit oder Dissertation) mit SBA Research gGmbH oder der TU Wien zu übernehmen. Bewerbungen bitte an eweippl@sba-research.org und… Read More

ERCIM News Special Theme: “Digital Twins”, Edgar Weippl (guest editor)

Ercim news is seeking short articles (700-800 words) on the current topic for its special theme “Digital Twins”. This is related to our ongoing research activities in the Christian Doppler Laboratory SQI (Links zu www.sqi.at) Submission Deadline Thursday, 28 August https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/call Guest editors: Benjamin Sanderse (CWI)… Read More