The goal of this one day workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding social network security and privacy issues, and establishing new collaborations in these areas.
Online social networks such as Facebook are among the most popular sites on the Web and continue to grow rapidly. They provide mechanisms to establish identities, share information, and create relationships. The resulting social graph provides a basis for communicating and distributing and locating content.
Even if social networks are now widely used , their security and privacy remain challenging because of the tension between sharing information and ensuring privacy. This workshop is intended to discuss the current security and privacy issues of social network and explore new ways to address them.

Scope

The scope of SNSP 2010 includes, but is not limited to :

• User Privacy
• Anonymity and identity
• Account security
• Spam
• User authentication and verification
• Information flow security
• User and platform trust issues
• Malware and botnets
• Scams
• Reputation
• Social engineering
• Phishing

For papers that focus on web security including browser and mashup security, we encourage authors to submit their paper to our twin workshop W2SP. Submitted papers may be referred to the W2SP program committee for consideration

Organizers

Chairs

Dan Boneh, Stanford University
Elie Bursztein, Stanford University
Tao Stein, Facebook

Program Committee

Arturo Bejar, Facebook
Bill Farner, Twitter
Palash Nandy, Youtube
Dj Patil, Linkedin
Dawn Song, Berkeley University
Vitaly Shmatikov, University of Texas

Important Dates

Paper submissions due: March 23, 2010 (11:59pm US-Eastern)
Notification to authors: April 11, 2010
Workshop: 20th May
Submissions are made via Easychair. Click here to submit your paperFormat We are seeking both short position papers (2 to 4 pages) and refereed papers (a maximum of 15 pages, excluding references and appendices). Papers longer than 15 pages may be automatically rejected by the chair or workshop committee. From the submissions, the program committee will strive to balance participation between academia and industry and across topics. Selected papers will appear on the workshop web site; SNSP has no formal published proceedings.