SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our colleague Andreas Ekelhart, key researcher and Applied Research Lead at SBA Research, spent 3 weeks in July 2026 as a visiting researcher at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth, Australia, hosted by Prof. Helge Janicke and his research group. Read More
We warmly congratulate Edgar Weippl, Scientific Director of SBA Research and Head of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, on his appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science. Read More
We are pleased to announce the publication of Dynamics of Disasters: Hybrid Threats, a new volume in the Springer Optimization and Its Applications series. The book was published in Spring 2026 and is co-edited by Dimitris E. Simos, Panos M. Pardalos, Ilias S. Kotsireas, Bernhard Garn, senior researcher at SBA Research and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Salzburg and Stefan Wolfgang Pickl. Read More
SBA Research was delighted to welcome FFG Managing Director Karin Tausz and Head of Division Structural Programmes Silvia Laimgruber to the SBA-K1 NGC COMET Center in Vienna. ... Read More
Maria Christakis has been awarded the 2026 ACM-W Rising Star Award, presented by ACM-W: ACM’s Women in Computing. This prestigious recognition honours outstanding early-career researchers who have made exceptional contributions to the computing field. ... Read More
SBA Research was delighted to host Dr. Fatma Nur Esirci Oral as a visiting researcher during the past three months.
During her stay, Dr. Esirci Oral worked on security-oriented test vector generation for rarely activated logic in digital circuits, a topic relevant to hardware security testing. She also prepared a state-of-the-art overview to support the next steps in this line of research. ... Read More
We warmly congratulate Prof. Johanna Ullrich, key researcher at SBA Research, on her appointment to the Founding Professorship in Security at IT:U. ... Read More
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. ∞
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our researchers, who were recognized at the University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science's Best-of-the-Best Awards on June 24. ∞