SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Katharina Krombholz and Martina Lindorfer of SBA Research organize a TechNIKE workshop on “Security on the Internet: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagramm & Co” at the TU Wien. The aim is to enthuse girls aged between 10 and 14 years for technology. This is an initiative of the TU Wien (project genderfair)… Read More
Adrian Dabrowski and Alexej Strelzow are accepted at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo for an internship. Alexej Strelzow will participate in the research area of Artificial Intelligence/Web Informatics which is headed by Prof. Hideaki Takeda. Alexej’s research focus will be Semantic Web and Linked (Open) Data. Adrian Dabrowski… Read More
The IMPACT 2014 was a great success: exciting expert lectures, posters and lightning talks on our latest research as well as plenty to eat and drink. The program, slides and some pictures are available here. We thank you for your participation!… Read More
Since April 9, SBA Research performs a daily scan of all Austrian IP addresses (approximately 12 million) due to the acute threat situation. Thereby, 121,420 IP addresses have been identified that respond to an HTTPS request for a webpage. Each server can be home to one or multiple sites. Of… Read More
SBA Research is participating in the “Lange Nacht der Forschung”, the biggest research event in Austria, which takes place for the 6th time this year and is held all over Austria. Venue is the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), 5pm – 11pm. The participation is free of charge. SBA Research presents:… Read More
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the Minister of Technology, Doris Bures, invited Katharina Krombholz, IT security researcher at SBA Research, to the BMVIT for a photo shooting. Katharina Krombholz started her career in research with a funded FEMtech internship and was subsequently offered a full-time employment at… 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). 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. ∞