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Tag: Research Paper

SBA @ Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026

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. ... Read More
SBA @ Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026

Password-Hardened Encryption Revisited

Dominique Schröder, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor of Privacy Enhancing Technologies at TU Wien published a new paper titled "Password-Hardened Encryption Revisited" which was presented at the 31st ASIACRYPT 2025 Melbourne, VIC, Australia. ... Read More
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Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

Global Collection of User Data Was Possible Through a – Now Resolved – Privacy Vulnerability. Computer scientists from the University of Vienna and SBA Research have uncovered a significant privacy vulnerability in WhatsApp’s Contact Discovery mechanism. Exploiting this weakness, they were able to perform an unprecedented global enumeration of all… Read More
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SBA @ Ekoparty 2025

SBA Research was proud to participate in the Ekoparty Security Conference 2025, held from October 22-24 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This year, Max Günther and Philipp Frenzel represented SBA Research and the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna… Read More
SBA @ Ekoparty 2025

Manuel Leithner at ICTSS 2025

Combinatorial Testing is a highly effective black-box testing method that combines small test sets with strong fault detection capabilities. However, faced with unknown file formats or network protocols, it requires a method to extract a model of possible parameters and values to use in its test cases. At the 37th… Read More
Manuel Leithner at ICTSS 2025

Gabriel Gegenhuber @ DEF CON 33

On 10th of August, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Maximilian Günther, researcher at the University of Vienna, gave a talk on “Silent Signals: Exploiting Security and Privacy Side-Channels in End-to-End Encrypted Messengers” at the… Read More
Gabriel Gegenhuber and Maximilian Günther on DEFCON 33 Stage

Markus Mayer @ LACNIC43

Our colleague Markus Maier, Researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna Research Group Security and Privacy, gave a talk on “In the Loop: An overview of Persistent Routing Loops on the IPv6 (and IPv4) internet” at the LACNIC43 conference in Sao Paulo, Brasil. ... Read More
Markus Maier on stage

New Paper: Attackers Can Do Better

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
Daryna presenting her paper at the SaTML Conference

MATRIS Paper in Bulletin of the ICA

At the end of 2024, Irene Hiess, Ludwig Kampel and Dimitris Simos published a paper on Optimal ordered covering arrays via an exact algorithm in the Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Application. Abstract Ordered covering arrays (orCAs) are combinatorial… Read More
MATRIS Paper in Bulletin of the ICA

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems – Paper accepted

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
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