SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
In 2025, the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) once again recognizes outstanding academic work in the fields of Computer Science and Business Informatics with the OCG Förderpreis and the OCG Förderpreis-FH. This year’s OCG Förderpreis goes to our research colleague Daryna Oliynyk for… Read More
In April 2025, the paper "Attackers Can Do Better: Over- and Understated Factors of Model Stealing Attacks", authored by Daryna Oliynyk, Rudolf Mayer, and Andreas Rauber, was presented at the IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML). ... Read More
Our MLDM team, in cooperation with Research Institute – Digital Human Rights Center, lead a specialist seminar addressing the pivotal security and legal concerns associated with artificial intelligence (AI). Read More
For decades, AI systems have been used to defend against cyberattacks. However, modern AI, particularly generative AI, not only strengthens defense mechanisms but also introduces new attack methods. A study conducted by SBA Research on behalf of RTR examined the latest advancements in cybersecurity from both offensive (Red Team) and… Read More
Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research, recently participated in the EOSC Winter School 2025, held from January 20–23 in Seville, Spain. Attending as the Technical Coordinator of the OSTrails project and a member of the EOSC Technical and Semantic Interoperability Task Force, Tomasz contributed to… Read More
New paper “Conceptual service architecture to synchronise research data management services using machine-actionable data management plans” by Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research and senior scientist at TU Wien, was recently accepted for the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems Journal. Read More
In December 2024, the informatics faculty at TU Wien celebrated the faculty’s most outstanding students at the TU Wien Informatics Awards. The award ceremony recognizes outstanding achievements on all academic levels – Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral – and across all research areas at TU Wien Informatics. Read More
During the kick-off meeting in Innsbruck in the end of January, the strategic research program was refined, and a detailed short-term implementation plan created. SBA Research participated in the meeting with Anastasia Pustozerova, Andrea Siposova, Daniela Martinez, and Rudolf Mayer. In a significant stride towards… Read More
Rudolf Mayer joins the Scientific Advisory Board of the Horizon Europe project Microb-AI-ome, and will advice the project consortium in data privacy and security in the context of federated databases and machine learning. About the project Microb-AI-ome aims to advance early identification of colorectal cancer… Read More
In the paper, we explore privacy attacks via linkage of samples of human microbiome, and extend on the current threat landscape by a more effective linkage attack. We further discuss mitigation actions. Our paper was published in “Computers & Security“, a Q1 ranked journal by… Read More
Together with sipgate and ISMK Stralsund, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Michael Pucher, researcher at SBA research, discovered and investigated a vulnerability in the Voice of LTE (VoLTE) stack that is broadly used within MediaTek-based smartphones. ∞
In the Mediatek modem, there is a possible system crash due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote denial of service, if a UE has connected to a rogue base station controlled by the attacker, with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. ∞