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
Our colleague Walid Fdhila, senior researcher and team lead at SBA Research and senior researcher at the University of Vienna at the Faculty of Computer Science, gave a talk titled Trustworthy Decentralized Digital Ecosystems, during his stay as guest professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Université de Tours, France. Read More
Kevin Mallinger, researcher at SBA Research, recently delivered a guest lecture on “Sustainable AI Applications” at Institut Agro Rennes-Angers in France. The lecture brought together students, researchers, and faculty members interested in the role of artificial intelligence in addressing sustainability challenges. Read More
At the end of November, our colleague Daryna Oliynyk, a researcher at SBA Research and the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, was invited to speak at the European Symposium on Security and AI (ESSAI) in Rennes, France. She presented the joint paper "Attackers Can Do Better: Over- and Understated Factors of Model Stealing Attacks", co-authored with Rudolf Mayer and Andreas Rauber. ... Read More
SBA Research was delighted to welcome Dr. Fatma Nur Esirci Oral as a visiting researcher during September 2025. During her stay, Dr. Esirci Oral delivered valuable seminars for our students and junior researchers and led vital discussions with our institute's members. ... Read More
In June, our colleague Bernhard Garn, senior researcher at SBA Research, participated in the 2nd IRDR Young Scientists Lumos, a global pre-event to the 2025 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR). Co-hosted by the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and the… Read More
Our colleague Bernhard Garn, researcher at SBA Research, gave a talk on "Improving the Security of Quantum Platforms using Combinatorial Methods" at the Workshop on Secure Protocol Implementations in the Quantum Era (SPIQE) on June 24th, in Munich, Germany. ... Read More
Edgar Weippl, research director of SBA Research and full professor at the University of Vienna, recently visited the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo. He attended a master seminar led by Prof. Isao Echizen, who works on fake… Read More
End of February, our colleague Florian Holzbauer, researcher at SBA Research, gave a talk on "From Austria to Ukraine and back: Active measurements to detect Internet outages" at the AT:NOG event in Linz. Read More
In December, our colleague Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Adrian Dabrowski (FH Campus Wien) held a talk together on WiFi Calling: Revealing Downgrade Attacks and Not-so-private private Keys at Black Hat Europe 2024. 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. ∞