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🔥 Cybersecurity Challenge

Hiding a message within a message is called steganography. Can you find the hidden message in the paragraph below?

Last Insider’s Challenge Answer

Can you convert these values to unveil a phrase? What type of values are used here?

01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110010

00100000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100001 01100111 01100101

This is written in Binary! The message reads, “computer language".

📚 Steganography Project Highlight

Check out this fun, cybersecurity project in our Project Catalog!

In this Steganography project, students will learn about how steganography is used to encrypt data. Students will develop their own encryption algorithms to hide a message in an image by manipulating the hexadecimal color codes of the image.

🗞️ Cybersecurity in the News

Can you trick an AI tool into performing a cyberattack? A security flaw in ChatGPT’s API could let hackers launch powerful DDoS attacks by flooding servers with unlimited requests. Researchers are calling on OpenAI to step up and add protections to stop this kind of misuse.

Class Discussion Questions

What do you think are the potential risks and benefits of using AI tools like ChatGPT?
How can companies balance innovation with safety?
Why do you think hackers are so interested in bypassing AI safeguards?

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