Moscow communicated with a ring of alleged spies in America by encoding instructions in otherwise innocent-looking images on public websites. It's a process called steganography. And it's one of a ...

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, the technique of embedding hidden messages inside public files, has become very popular with exploit kit operators in 2016. Several security firms have detected multiple updates to ...

In a potentially worrisome trend for enterprises, threat actors have increasingly begun using the ancient technique of steganography to conceal data theft and other malicious activity on compromised ...

A threat group tracked as 'Worok' hides malware within PNG images to infect victims' machines with information-stealing malware without raising alarms. This has been confirmed by researchers at Avast, ...

Backbone Security released Version 3.7 of the Steganography Application Fingerprint Database (SAFDB) which now contains more than 875 steganography applications. Developed in Backbone's Steganography ...

Hiding secret messages inside what seem to be harmless messages is nothing new. The word steganography itself originated in Greece and means “covered writing”. During important historic events of our ...

For most people, steganography is overkill. If you do need it, though, OpenPuff is the way to go. Steganography, or hiding messages in plain sight, is a storied practice dating back to ancient Greece.

In a world with finite storage and an infinite need for more storage space, data compression becomes a very necessary problem. Several algorithms for data compression may be more familiar – Huffman ...