Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks (1 Credit)
Course Details:

Lecture 1 (2 Hours): Security and Privacy Fundamentals: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, k-anonymity, l-diversity and t-closeness, Threats and Attacks, Social Engineering attacks

Lecture 2 (2 Hours): Challenges and Problems in OSN Security and Privacy: Evolution of OSNs, Technical foundation of OSNs, Social Impact of OSNs, Use and Misuse, OSN Vulnerabilities, Weak and Strong Identities in OSNs

Lecture 3 (2 Hours): Access Control and Policy Configuration: Basic access control models. Advantages and shortcomings, Policy analysis, Next generation access control models, OSN access control

Lecture 4 (2 Hours): Privacy Attacks and their Mitigation: Identity Theft Potential, Impact of OSN Security Attacks, Privacy Laws in Different Countries, Privacy Breaches and Impact

Lecture 5 (2 Hours): Inference Attacks for Big Data: Impact of inferencing attacks, Recent incidents of attacks, Defense mechanisms, User sensitization and recovery

Lecture 6 (2 Hours): Case Studies on Real World Attacks in OSNs: Recent incidents of attacks on OSNs, Impact and damage assessment, Financial and legal issues

Suggested Text/Reference Books

Computer Security: Art and Science by Matt Bishop
Security and Trust in Online Social Networks by Barbara Carminati et al.