SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
3 years of collaboration within the IoT4CPS project is coming to an end: 16 consortium partners (including SBA Research) nearly 100 project team members involved 45+ deliverables achieved (+30 public documents) 7 white papers written, 6 posters illustrated… Read More
The KIRAS project Digital Atlas Austria 2.0, led by SBA Research, was successfully completed last month. The study offers insight into Internet-based services that are relevant and critical for Austria and presents their ownership structures and regulatory environments. By creating failure… 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. ∞