This volume the 23rd issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems
focuses on information and security engineering. It contains five revised and extended papers
selected from the proceedings of the First International Conference on Future Data and Security
Engineering FDSE 2014 held in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam November 19-21 2014. The titles of
the five papers are as follows: A Natural Language Processing Tool for White Collar Crime
Investigation Data Leakage Analysis of the Hibernate Query Language on a Propositional
Formulae Domain An Adaptive Similarity Search in Massive Datasets Semantic Attack on
anonymized Transactions and Private Indexes for Mixed Encrypted Databases.