One of the spy technologies that's come to light in the recently-exposed alleged Russian spy ring is steganography, a word that comes from the Greek for “covered writing.” It’s a way to hide ...

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 ...

Cryptography and steganography stand out as crucial techniques in ensuring data security. Cryptography plays a vital role in transforming data into encrypted forms, rendering it unintelligible to ...

In early September 2022, researchers identified a threat group [Worok] that targeted many victims, including government entities around the world, to gain access to devices. The hackers concealed ...

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 ...

ISIS has long taken full advantage of secure communication tools, and utilized mainstream communication platforms in unexpected ways. Extremist groups even develop their own software at times to ...

A team of researchers has developed a new method of hiding information inside innocuous-looking documents. The technique itself – steganography – has been used in various forms for centuries; it ...

THE YEAR IN IDEAS: A TO Z. By Bruce Sterling New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. *Does not ...

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 ...

Let’s face it. It’s a clunky name for an elegant concept: steganography. Though it sounds like a creature from the Mesozoic Era, steganography describes the art of hiding messages in plain sight. The ...