Security, Trust and Privacy in Cyber (STPCyber): Future trends and challenges

Today's world experiences massively interconnected devices to share information across variety of platforms between traditional computers (machines), Smart IoT devices used across smart homes, smart interconnected vehicles etc. and of course the social networks apps such as Facebook, Linkdn, twitter etc. We experience the growth has been skyrocketing and the trend will continue exponentially to the future. At one end, we find life becomes easier with such developments and at the other end; we experience more and more cyber threats on our privacy, security and trustworthiness with organizations holding our data. In this special issue, we summarize contributions by authors in advanced topics related to security, trust and privacy based on a range of applications and present a selection of the most recent research efforts in these areas. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V.