Low-key but effective, steganography is an old-school trick of hiding code within a normal-looking image, where many cybersecurity pros may not think to look. One of the challenges of cybersecurity is ...

An engineering firm suspected that an insider was transmitting valuable intellectual property out of its network. When Seattle-based forensics consulting firm Electronic Evidence Discovery Inc. (EED) ...

Steganography involves hiding data in something else — for example, encoding data in a picture. [David Buchanan] used polyglot files not to hide data, but to send a large amount of data in a single ...

Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept attack that uses steganography to establish highly covert malware command and control channels on the Instagram social media network. In researching a way ...

Shakespeare was a prolific playwright, penning more than 37 plays and 154 sonnets throughout his entire career. Now, his life’s work has been compiled into a tiny image on Twitter by computer science ...

Steganography strips less important information from digital content and injects hidden data in its place. This is done over the spectrum of the entire image. Here’s one way it could be implemented: ...

My colleague Sarah Scalet took this photograph in Brooklyn. It’s lovely, isn’t it? It’s also carrying a secret message. Spread throughout this picture are bits of information that, when decrypted and ...