SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
As part of an IEEE Industry Connection on Synthetic Data our colleague Rudolf Mayer, senior researcher at SBA Research, co-authored a white paper on privacy risks, metrics, and governance in synthetic data. Read More
In August, our colleagues Tanja Šarčević and Daryna Oliynyk, both researchers at SBA Research, presented their posters at the CISPA-ELLIS Summer School 2025 on Trustworthy AI: Secure and Safe Foundation Models in Saarbrücken, Germany.... Read More
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 21st ICT Security Conference on 25 and 26 June 2025, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. They impressed the audience with their… Read More
The MATRIS Research Group of SBA Research attended the 14th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2025) in Naples, Italy, the premier venue for research on combinatorial testing. The topics presented include algorithms for the construction of discrete mathematical objects and repositories thereof, novel applications of combinatorial testing including AI… Read More
Bernhard Garn participated as trainee in the 1st NERO Winter School on Fire Spread and Behavior Reconstruction, which was held between February 18 – 21, 2025, at the Command Center of the Autoridade Nacional de Emergência e Proteção Civil (engl.,Portuguese National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection;… Read More
On December 13th, SBA Research employees gathered at the Kardinal König Haus in Vienna for a one-day strategy seminar. The event began with an overview from our management team, reflecting on SBA Research’s journey and highlighting the center’s evolution over time. Presentations from all research groups,… Read More
Philipp Frenzel, Gabriel Gegenhuber, Florian Holzbauer, Markus Maier and Jakob Rosenblattl – all researchers from the ERIS research group – attended this year`s TMA PhD School and Conference in Dresden. Read More
We are thrilled to announce that, Dimitris Simos (Key Researcher, MATRIS lead, and Head of Strategic Research) has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Applications of Computer Algebra Early Researcher Award (ACA-ERA). Recognized as “one of the most dynamic and active researchers” by the award committee,… Read More
Im Exemplar des OCG Journals 01/23 durften einige Kolleg:innen der SBA Research mitwirken und ihre Forschung präsentieren. Edgar Weippl schrieb dabei über Österreichs IT-Nachwuchs. “Unbekannte Protokolle testen” hieß der Beitrag von Manuel Leithner. Die ehemalige FEMTech Praktikantin Diana Strauß schrieb während ihrer… Read More
SBA Research is now listed as “Practitioner” on the official OWASP SAMM website: https://owaspsamm.org/practitioners As stated on their site, a SAMM practitioner is anyone who provides assessment, roadmap services, or tools based on the whole SAMM model. SBA Research’ Professional Services offers the SSDLC-Gap-Analysis… 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. ∞