SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
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
The article discusses potential strategies for automation of assessment of data management plans so that researchers and funders can receive quick feedback on the quality and FAIRness of planned or executed actions. The results presented on the paper will have impact on the new features developed in the… Read More
Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... ∞
Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... ∞