How To Find Hidden Codes in Images
CyberStart Assess Challenge 2 Spoiler
Fancy yourself a cyber security expert in the making?
At CyberStart, we’ve created a range of real-life cyber security challenges online to test your skills. In this blog, we’ll be talking you through one challenge in particular and showing you how to solve it.
By the end of the blog, you’ll know how to find hidden codes within images. This is a really useful technique to know if you want to get into cyber security!
Ready to get learning?
Here’s the problem… can you solve it?
As a cyber security expert, you’re asked to investigate a hacker who really loves drag racing. She’s been running a drag racing fan site where she hides secret messages using images of drag racing cars.
Can you unravel the technique she uses to hide her secret code?
Check out the video below to see the scenario and how to solve it!
⚠️ Warning: This video is a spoiler of challenge 2 in CyberStart Assess. If you’re currently playing Assess and want to solve this challenge by yourself, we recommend you don’t watch this just yet!
Tips to remember:
- Have a look at the code behind certain pages to reveal hidden messages
- Look for hints and clues in the challenges titles, text and images
- Consider how technologies change as we start to interact with them
If you’re currently playing CyberStart Assess, good luck with the rest of the challenges!
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