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10/12/2007:
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CA Internet Security Report Forecasts Top Online Threats for 2008 - CA.com
Number 2: "Smarter malware: There are new levels of sophistication in malware. Malware
will target virtualized computers, and increasing use of obfuscation techniques
to hide in plain sight, including steganography and encryptions, will help criminals
conceal their activities."
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10/12/2007:
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Data leak: Cyber sherlocks outwit hackers - The Economic
Times
"This was a clear cut case of an insider fishing for confidential data. He used
a technique called ‘steganography’ which enabled him to encrypt and send data inside
music and picture files using third-party steganography software. The information
was locked using a password and the person receiving the data used the same password
to decrypt the information. This person used virtual machine software for this task
to install a totally new Operating System within the existing OS and then the steganography
software did the trick. He was caught after an elaborate investigation process."
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08/21/2007:
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Al-Qaida
spreads across the Web - NBC Nightly News
"Internet jihadists hide their messages with pirated encryption software and steganography,
a technology that embeds messages into photographs making them undetectable."
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08/16/2007:
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Anti-Forensic Methods Used by Jihadist Web Sites - eSecurity Planet
"In the February, 2007 edition of Technical Mujahid is an article that encourages
extremists to download a copy of the software program Secrets of the Mujahideen.
Secrets is an encryption software application which can hide data between the pixels
of an image, and then compress the file in an attempt to defeat steganalysis. The
article provides a detailed example of how 20 messages can be hidden in a 100 x
50 pixel picture. Dr. Chen, director of the Artificial Intelligence lab at the University
of Arizona, has confirmed to me that steganography is being used by some of the
extremist Web sites that they monitor, although an analysis on its use hasn’t been
done yet."
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07/14/2007:
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Terror flows out of hi-tech boom law & order - The Hindu
"Another technique employed by terrorists is steganography that is used to embed
messages in pictures and audio files. Creating further problems for enforcement
agencies, they send these files as spam (messages sent in bulk but not directed
to any particular person). 'The message reaches a wide number of people, among whom
are the intended recipients,' says the police officer. This ensures that surveillance
agencies remain oblivious about the source and destination besides the content of
the message."
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07/11/2007:
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Glasgow probe shows how Web links terror worldwide - IBNLive
"Apart from social messaging services and private chat rooms, high tech methods
which are difficult to detect include steganography, a method of hiding messages
in images, video and audio files which only the intended recipient can decode."
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07/10/2007:
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New-age terrorist is a techie to boot - The Times of India
"Steganography involves writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart
from the intended recipient knows of the existence of the message. In such cases,
the existence of the message is not disguised, but the content is obscured."
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02/21/2007:
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Sharp Rise in Cyber Crimes Foreseen - Business Recorder
"The powerful technologies that have done so much to improve the quality of our
lives are also being used by some of the worst elements of our society; small time
criminals who can take on a whole new persona on the internet; malcontents who can
find like-minded hate groups, scam artists who think they can escape detection in
the anonymity of the web; terrorist who use steganography to communicate by encrypting
messages into image files inaccessible to all except those who have passwords."
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02/15/2007:
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Hiding messages
in plain sight - BBC News
"A technology that can 'hide' information in plain sight on printed images has begun
to see the first commercial applications."
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01/24/2007:
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Embedding the
evil within - Corrections.com
"'A picture is worth a thousand words,' and in today's high-tech world those words
have never been more true, especially for criminals. From terrorists to child pornographers,
photos are providing the means by which they establish covert communication. Many
of these criminals are experts at steganography."
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01/01/2007:
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StegAlyzerAS
and StegalyzerSS - OLETC Today
"Our objective is to provide the computer forensic examiners with a ‘point-click-and-extract’
interface to relieve them of the burden of doing the detailed steganalysis."
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