As the rapid development of online social networks has dramatically changed the way people think, work and interact, it also raise great challenges as well as new opportunities for information security and privacy. Our December issue of the E-letter will focus on but not limited to the discussion of the following issues in online social networks.

 ·         Arising security and privacy challenges associated

 ·         State-of-the-art security, privacy and trust solutions 

 ·         Available data set for security and privacy research

       If you are interested in contributing an article to this E-letter, please send a short abstract with the author list to yuhong@psu.edu as soon as possible and the submission deadline for the full paper will be Nov. 1st. There is no maximal page limit, but the ideal length would be about a short conference paper (4-6 pages).

 Important date:

 Submission deadline: Nov. 1st

 Review: Nov. 2nd – Nov. 23rd  

 Final submission: Dec. 5th

 Publish date: Dec. 20th