Welcome back, my hacker apprentices! Get paid to share your links! In recent weeks, the revelation that the NSA has been spying on all of us has many people up in arms. I guess I take it all in stride as I just assume that the NSA is spying on all of us—all of the time. Don't get me wrong, I don't condone it, but I know the NSA. Basically, the PRISM program that NSA uses to spy may examine web traffic looking for keywords, alerting the NSA when these words are found. Now, imagine if you're a private investigator. You were hired by a woman who thinks that her husband is plotting her murder. Could we develop our own PRISM to detect whether he's actually planning her murder or if she's just imagining it? The answer is...of course! To do so, we'll need a few things. First, we need to compromise the plotting suspect's computer using Metasploit. Second, we'll need to redirect all of the suspect's web traffic through our com
Steganography is the art of hiding information in plain sight, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how to use Steghid — a very simple command line tool to do just that. In addition, I'll go over a bit of conceptual background to help you understand what's going on behind the scenes. This is a tool that's simple, configurable, and only takes a few seconds to hide information in many file types. What Is Steganography? Unlike encryption, where it's obvious that a message is being hidden, steganography hides data in plain view, inside a file such as a picture. As far as images are concerned, to anyone who isn't aware that it contains hidden data, it looks like just a normal, innocent picture. Steganography is useful in situations where sending encrypted messages might raise suspicion, such as in countries where free speech is suppressed. It's also frequently used as a digital watermark to find when images or audio files are stolen. And on a less pra