What is steganography? Steganography is the practice of concealing a file, image or video within another file, message, image or video. In layman term, steganography is the science of hiding information. Currently, it has been a cyber threat to most of us.
Basically, what happens in stenography is when a secret message is sent to other party, normal person would not be able to know what is the real message. Any individual can hide information in any kind of file.
Steganography tools enables a user to embed hidden data inside a carrier file, such as an image or video, and later extract the data. Nowadays, steganography tools are being widely used in the cyberterrorism. Steganography is supporting global terrorism.
In recent events happening around us, many terrorist groups are sharing their information through embedding it into image files without being able to be traced by anyone apart from their sources. They are sharing these images over the email.
Therefore, new laws pertaining the prevention of these unhealthy activity should be setup immediately in order to keep the country and the world a safe place to live in.
