Over the last decade, we have witnessed a growing dependency on information technologyresultingina wide rangeofnew opportunities. Clearly, ithas become almost impossible to imagine life without a personal computer or laptop, or without a cell phone. Social network sites (SNS) are competing with face-- face encounters and may even oust them. Most SNS-adepts have hundreds of "friends," happily sharing pictures and pro?les and endless chitchat. We are on the threshold of the Internet of Things, where every object will have its RFID-tag. This will not only e?ect companies, who will be able to...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 International Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security, CMS 2013, held in Magdeburg, Germany, in September 2013. The 5 revised full papers presented together with 11 short papers, 5 extended abstracts describing the posters that were discussed at the conference, and 2 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biometrics; applied cryptography; digital watermarking, steganography and forensics; and social network privacy, security...