SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
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
Today, we celebrate Safer Internet Day—an initiative dedicated to promoting safer and more responsible use of digital technologies. We’re proud to take action not just today, but throughout the entire year, with activities focused on cybersecurity awareness and skills development:… Read More
Markus Klemen, CEO of SBA Research, participated in a high-level panel discussion during the FFG Community Day 2025, addressing “Strategic Challenges for Secure and Successful Research from Europe.” The panel delved into pressing issues surrounding research and development in today’s… Read More
New paper “Send and Pretend: Exploiting Transcript Consistency Issues in End-to-End Encrypted Group Chats”, was recently accepted for the 35th USENIX Security Symposium. The paper is a collaboration between SBA, the University of Vienna, and the Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (IT:U). It was authored by Gabriel K. Gegenhuber, Moritz Grefner, Maximilian Günther, Matthäus Wininger, David Schmidt, and Aljosha Judmayer. ∞
The IRIS web application in version 2.4.26 and possibly others is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in the assets (CVE-2026-16969), custom attributes (CVE-2026-18360) and datastore upload (CVE-2026-18361) functions. ∞
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our researchers, who were recognized at the University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science's Best-of-the-Best Awards on June 24. ∞