SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
After a successful 1st Young Researcher’s Day in March 2012, we now start in round two! Ingrid Schaumüller-Bichl and Edgar Weippl cordially invite to the 2nd Young Researcher’s Day which will take place during the OCG working group „IT Security“ on 29/11/2012. The basic idea behind this event is the… Read More
Researchers of SBA Research and the SecLab of the Vienna University of Technology participated successfully in the world’s most recognized capture the flag tournament at DEFCON 2012 in Las Vegas Following a tough qualification with hundreds of competing teams, our team “We_Own_You” made its way to the final round with… Read More
SBA organizes the ARES 20120 conference in Prague The ARES Conference Team: (from left to right) A Min Tjoa, Edgar Weippl, Yvonne Poul, Stefan Jakoubi, Simon Tjoa … Read More
the BEST summer school on information security starts at the Vienna University of Technology. All lectures are held by researchers and professionals from SBA.
In JR Center for „User-friendly Secure Mobile Environments“ deals with security aspects in current and future mobile applications – e.g., credit and debit card functionalities, cash transactions or (un)locking doors. Center director is Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. René Mayrhofer; the center located at the FH Oberösterreich. Company Partners are: A1 Telekom… Read More
An interview concerning social network security. Ö1 aired the interview in their daily journals on June 8th 2012. Listen to the interview here: OE1_Journal120608_Huber
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. ∞