Security and Privacy in Social Networks

Topics:

The proposed topics for the workshop include but are not limited to the following:

• Malware propagation in social networks
• Information leakage via social networks
• Social currency mechanisms - potential and risks
• Privacy management in social networks - access controls, permissions
• Identity theft in social networks
• Collaborative detection of distributed network attacks
• Peer-to-peer based security mechanisms
• Trust and reputation in social networks
• Socially inspired network security architectures
• Socially aware network security protocols
• Security configuration based on social contexts groups (social-firewall, authentication protocols, etc.)
• Configuring security protocol parameters based on social information
• Privacy-preserving methods for data access and data mining