SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
On June 16th, SBA Research and the Security & Privacy group at University of Vienna hosted the Vienna Deep Learning Meetup (VDLM).
The event, attended by Deep Learning enthusiasts, comprised of a talk by Damian Stewart, who gave a Deep Dive into CLIP embeddings. CLIP embeddings are at the heart of many multimodal AI systems, as they map language to images. ... Read More
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
Our colleague Rudolf Mayer, senior researcher at SBA Research, gave a talk at the 2025 dHealth conference organised in Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria. ... 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
Vulnerability Overview All user accounts authenticate towards a Filebrowser instance with a password. A missing password policy and brute-force protection… ∞