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📂Briefing

Forensics and Steganography

What's in an image?

Metadata is information stored in nearly any image on the internet that provides information such as the camera, date, and GPS location.

What if you tried guessing the location of someone from just a picture? How hard would it be?

🖼️Case 1: What's in an Image?

Can I hide secret messages in pictures?

Steganography is the science of hiding information in images. The simplest way is to hide information by appending it onto the end of an image file.

🤫Case 2: Secret, Secret, On the Wall

Can I hide files in pictures?

Yes! Another common process in steganography is appending a file onto an image to hide it from unsuspecting eyes.

🗃️Case 3: Files in Files

Bonus Activity

What's hidden in this picture?

Hint:

Use CyberChef for this activity, and use these tools:

Cyber Forensics Game

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