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SBA @ ACSAC

Florian Holzbauer, researcher at SBA Research, and Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and the Research Group Security and Privacy at the University of Vienna, attended the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2025 in Hawaii, USA. ... Read More
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Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

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
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Best Paper Award @ RAID 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
Gabriel Gegenhuber with best paper award from raid 2025 on stage

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 @ ACM IMC 2025

End of October, Florian Holzbauer, researcher at SBA Research and a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, presented his paper Tracking Internet Disruptions in Ukraine: Insights from Three Years of Active Full Block Scans at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference in Madison, Wisconsin,… Read More
SBA @ ACM IMC 2025

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

Markus Mayer @ LACNIC43

Our colleague Markus Maier, Researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna Research Group Security and Privacy, gave a talk on “In the Loop: An overview of Persistent Routing Loops on the IPv6 (and IPv4) internet” at the LACNIC43 conference in Sao Paulo, Brasil. ... Read More
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Congratulations to our key researcher Johanna Ullrich!

We warmly congratulate Prof. Johanna Ullrich, key researcher at SBA Research, on her appointment to the Professorship in Communication Technologies at the University of Vienna. Over the past years, Johanna Ullrich has gained a strong reputation for her outstanding research in network security, internet protocols, and critical infrastructures. Her… Read More
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