Security and Privacy | International World Wide Web Conference

As the Web has grown to be an essential part of our lives, security and privacy have become essential requirements without which the Web cannot function. Security and privacy technologies are fundamental to the successful conduct of most web transactions and they must be suitable to be used by a highly diverse population of users; at the same time, the sheer success of web-based transactions and services have made them a ripe target for abuse by hostile parties, who will exploit both technical and human failures. This track offers a forum to discuss the notions of security, privacy, trust and abuse on the Web, and to present advances in research in in these areas.

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

Human and usability factors in Web Security & Privacy
Measurement, analysis, and circumvention of Web censorship
Authentication, authorization, and auditing on the web
Access control, rights management, and security of social content
Anomaly detection and monitoring methods
Negative content filtering: spam, abuse, fake reviews, etc.
Browser security issues, including attacks, defenses, and policy models
Large scale malware defense
Analysis of large scale attacks against the Web
Privacy-enhancing technologies, including anonymity, pseudonymity and identity management, specifically for the web
Legal, ethical, policy issues of Web security and privacy
Dealing with client-side risks
Content protection and abuse on the web (DRM, web/blog spam, etc.)
Security for web services (blogs, web feed, wikis, social networks, etc.)
Applications of cryptography to the web, including PKI and supporting concepts like digital signatures, certification, etc.
Electronic commerce, particularly security mechanisms for e-cash, auctions, payment, and fraud detection
Security and privacy issues in search, advertising, and mining of the Web and social networks
Online crime/underground economics