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In the ZIB 1 news broadcast of 13 September 2026, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab AsTra, gave his assessment of the current debate about autonomously acting AI systems and of the calls from leading AI companies to slow down development. Read More
Constanze Roedig, key researcher at SBA Research, published an insightful article titled Software Supply Chain: “Bill of Behavior” as a Package Insert for Containers in heise magazine iX. Read More
Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab AsTra, was a guest in three ORF broadcasts in late July 2026, on the security incident involving an OpenAI model and the AI Act's new transparency obligations. Read More
Sebastian Schrittwieser, researcher at SBA Research and the University of Vienna, was recently featured in an article by futurezone.at discussing large-scale cyberattacks targeting internet routers. Read More
Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research and Marco Reiser published an interesting article on "What programming at prompt level leads to". Where can AI systems really help programmers and is the approach taken here really new? This article takes a look at their role. ... Read More
Michael Koppmann, senior information security consultant and Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, published an interesting article regarding KI Assistants and LLMs and how to check the code quality on heise online. ... Read More
Behind the Scenes: Exclusive Interview with Kevin Mallinger of SBA Research for CGTN TV. We are thrilled to share an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the recent interview with Kevin Mallinger, researcher at SBA Research, for CGTN TV. This insightful interview dives deep into the major technological shift which forest fire risk assessment has ... Read More
The project cooperation and partnership between Matris Applied Research Consulting (MARC) and Commend received a spotlight in the April issue of one of the most globally prominent magazines in cybersecurity: the Security System News. Last year, the lead of MARC, Reinhard Kugler, started… Read More
Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, published two cover articles regarding the ESG software market in heise iX. The ESG reporting obligations are coming In 2024 and 2025, many SMEs will be subject to new non-financial reporting obligations on the environmental and human… Read More
Vienna is one of the largest university cities in the German-speaking world. Universities, universities of applied sciences, private universities and several private research institutions form a high concentration of knowledge. The ViSP was founded to bundle these capacities. The Vienna Cybersecurity and Privacy Research Cluster consists… Read More
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞
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. ∞