SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2024) took center stage in Vienna from July 30 to August 2, 2024, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. Co-located with ARES 2024 was the International Workshop on Dynamics of Disasters:… Read More
The 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2023) took center stage in Benevento, Italy, from August 29 to September 1, 2023, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. Co-located with ARES 2023 was the International IFIP Cross Domain Conference… 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. ∞