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SBA Research @ OWASP Global AppSec EU 2026

SBA Research was proud to support OWASP Global AppSec EU 2026, one of Europe's leading conferences on application security, held from June 22–26, 2026, at the Austria Center Vienna.. The event brought together security researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to exchange knowledge, discuss emerging threats, and explore the latest developments in application security. Read More
volunteers group photo at the OWASP Global AppSec EU 2026

BSides Vienna 0x7EA

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. Read More
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SBA @ ESWC 2026

Our colleague Andreas Ekelhart, key researcher and Applied Research Lead at SBA Research and researcher at the Research Group Security & Privacy at University of Vienna,, presented his conference paper titled AgentO: An Ontology for Modeling Agentic AI Systems at the 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026) in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Read More
Andreas Ekelhart presenting his paper

SBA @ BOB 2026

In March, our colleague Michael Koppmann, senior information security consultant at SBA Research, gave an insightful talk titled Illegal States Are My Favorite Security Vulnerabilities (to Delete at Compile Time) at the BOB 2026 Conference in Berlin, Germany. Read More
Portrait Michael Koppmann

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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SBA @ BSidesVienna 0x7E9

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
Mathias on stage presenting

SBA @ Ekoparty 2025

SBA Research was proud to participate in the Ekoparty Security Conference 2025, held from October 22-24 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This year, Max Günther and Philipp Frenzel represented SBA Research and the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna… Read More
SBA @ Ekoparty 2025

SBA @ re:think diversity congress 2025

On October 22 2025, the Diversity Think Tank team hosted the re:think diversity congress at the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. Like last year, Jeanine Lefèvre, Head of Office of Equal Opportunities and research coordinator, and Gregor Roschitz,… Read More
Gregor and Jeanine in the event hall

SBA @ heise devSec()

Our colleagues Michael Koppmann, senior information security consultat at SBA Research, and Mathias Tausig, information security consultant at SBA Research Research gave two insightful talks on ... Read More
SBA @ heise devSec()

Gabriel Gegenhuber @ DEF CON 33

On 10th of August, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Maximilian Günther, researcher at the University of Vienna, gave a talk on “Silent Signals: Exploiting Security and Privacy Side-Channels in End-to-End Encrypted Messengers” at the… Read More
Gabriel Gegenhuber and Maximilian Günther on DEFCON 33 Stage