John used to work as a Network Administrator for We-are-secure Inc. Now he has resigned from the company for personal reasons. He wants to send out some secret information of the company. To do so, he

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Options

• AEmail spoofing
• BSocial engineering
• CWeb ripping
• DSteganography

• A
  11% (3)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  7% (2)
• D
  78% (21)

Explanation

John is performing steganography (D) - the practice of hiding secret data within an ordinary, non-suspicious file (here, an image) so that the existence of the hidden message is itself concealed. The tool "image hide" embeds the secret file inside the image's binary data, making it invisible to casual inspection and undetectable by content-filtering mail servers looking for suspicious attachments.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Email spoofing): Spoofing involves forging the sender address to impersonate someone else - John isn't faking his identity here.
• B (Social engineering): Social engineering manipulates people psychologically to divulge information; no human manipulation is occurring.
• C (Web ripping): Web ripping is copying/downloading an entire website's content - unrelated to hiding data in files.

Memory tip: Think of the word root - steganos (Greek for "covered/hidden") + graphia (writing). Steganography = "hidden writing inside something innocent." If the question describes data hidden inside an image, audio, or video file to bypass detection, it's always steganography.

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