This course will cover a set of advanced security and privacy issues related to the usage of modern systems and technologies. In particular, the course will focus on the following three aspects. 1) Smartphone Security and Privacy: Security issues and attacks mitigations; Mitigating potential threats of SSL-vulnerable applications; Threats to user privacy through traffic analysis. 2) Social Network Security: Better privacy at (almost) no cost in Social Network; Virtual Private Social Networks; Friend in the Middle; Fake profiles attacks and detection strategies. 3) Future Internet Technology: Proposals for the next Internet architecture; Content Centric Networking and Named Data Networking; Cache privacy attacks and countermeasures; Denial of Service attacks and countermeasures; Covert Channels. The scope of this course is to expose the students to security and privacy issues related to the usage of modern systems and technologies, as well as stimulate their capacity of critical thinking for research ideas and methodologies.