SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
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
On November 20, Caroline Lawitschka took the stage at the “Vormittagsprogramm zur Eröffnung des NCC-AT” as part of the Women4Cyber initiative. Her talk, titled “LLM Prompt Injections Attacks and Mitigation Strategies,” addressed critical cybersecurity issues. The event, serving as the opening… Read More
On the 20th of September, Caroline Lawitschka was allowed to be a part of the 10th Tems Security Webinar and gave a talk on the topic “Prompt Injections – Attacks and Mitigation Strategies”. The Tems Security Webinar was the tenth event in this year’s series and took… Read More
On the 22nd of June, the VIP Security Round Table by Tems Security was held as an internal event for employees as well as partners and concerned itself with current as well as future topics in security. Caroline Lawitschka was the second of two talks, the first one… Read More
A new paper, “Automated Reasoning for Indistinguishability in the CCSA,” co-authored by Laura Kovács, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and Matteo Maffei, key researcher at SBA Research and Professor at TU Wien, has been accepted for presentation at the 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). ∞
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞
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. ∞