NEW Article: "Investigating Security implications of data hiding techniques under Windows OS"

Dear Readers,

We prepared for you new issue "Investigating Security implications of data hiding techniques under Windows OS"

Author: Nihad Hassan

"Investigating Security implications of data hiding techniques under Windows OS"

What you will learn:
Using a variety of techniques to hide data under Windows Operating System
Using these techniques to exploit Windows systems
Understanding Alternative Data Stream files concept and its security implications

What you should know:
Understanding of Windows OS working and main functions.
Basic Knowledge of MS DOS commands.
The art of data hiding is concerned about putting data where it is not supposed to exists, current operating systems and file structures give us vast possibilities to conceal our data and making it harder to detect, a person with a malicious intent can also use these techniques to bring damage to our system. The internet is full of articles that talk about this subject, however few of them discuss data hiding under Windows OS in a more simple language as we try to achieve in this article.
Data hiding could be done using variety of methods and techniques, I will begin my discussion in describing simple but yet efficient methods to hide data within files and system structure. The methods Iam going to explain in this article are as follow:
A. First: Simple Methods
1. RTF documents,
2. Renamed files,
3. Hiding data in Registry,
4. Hiding in Microsoft Office documents.
B. Second: Advanced....

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