Information security is a very broad
filed of IT and it involve the activities of hacking, cracking,
penetration testing, computer forensic and many more. We have
discussed various aspect of information security via different
articles and tutorials and this time we are presenting a cracking
challenge which is some kind of a reverse engineering and computer forensic. The theory behind the cracking is to evaluate your
intelligence level, I mean how quick you can understand the problem
and how fast you can get the solution.
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The Story
very simple let suppose you are a penetration tester for an
organization which is responsible for the homeland security and your
team member has got three images which seems to be suspect, your job
is to evaluate these images whether they are just a image of they
contain contain some secret messages.
Tasks
to find out the image (s) which contain secret message and your job
is to find out the message which is hidden of-course. It might be
possible that all of them has some messages or it might be possible
that only one contain the message. The quick overview of the
challenge is :
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Find out
how many of these images contain the secret message -
Find out
what actually the message (s) is/are
The images
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you will find it than simply share it via comment box (if your answer
will right than I will hold it so that other will try it), If you
will fail then you need not to worry because at the end of the
challenge I will show the method to find the message(s).
to share it with your friends so that they will try, share it via
your social media profiles and on different forums. Discuss the issue
with the relevant people. The result will announce right after three
weeks so you have enough time to do the job. Your questions will be entertain.