San Francisco, California, August 13-15, 2014.

Social Networking has become a major factor in our everyday lives. We post, view, and disseminate vast quantities of information on online social networks. However, this has given rise to a new threat to security and privacy. As many people post a plethora of personal information in social networks, malicious parties have misused this to violate the confidentiality and privacy of the information. Social networking has also led to cases of stalking, impersonations, malware and spam distribution, and large scale surveillance. At the same time, the rise of social networks have allowed security researchers to gather valuable data about human behavior and trust relationships. In this workshop, we want to explore the impact of online social networks on security and privacy.

The goal of this workshop is to discuss new research ideas associated with Social Networking security and privacy. In particular, we seek ideas, analyses, and evaluations of various aspects of security and privacy in social networks.

• Authentication in Social Networks
• Access control in Social Networks
• Privacy
• Information Leakage
• Trust in Social Networks
• Intelligence gathering in Social Networks
• Security in Mobile Social Networks
• Location privacy in Social Networks
• Authorship attribution in Social Network discussions
• Availability of Social Networks
• Confidentiality
• Malware dissemination via Social Networks
• Profiling
• Surveillance
• SPAM/phishing in Social Networks

We seek original research papers up to 6 pages including references in ACM SIG conference format. Papers should describe  previously unpublished work, not currently under review or accepted by another conference, workshop, or journal. An electronic version of the full paper should be submitted by the paper submission deadline to EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socialsec2014). Each paper will be peer reviewed by at least two experts. Papers should be blinded to anonymize author identities and affiliations. Papers accepted by the workshops will be published in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Important Dates

 

Organizers:

 

Ragib Hasan, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Adam J. Lee, University of Pittsburgh

Elisa Bertino, Purdue University

Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University

Sabrina De Capitani Di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano

Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano

Mohamed Shehab, UNC Charlotte

Gabriel Ghinita, UMass Boston

Shishir Nagaraja, University of Birmingham

 

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