The act of hiding a message may be tracked historically at least to the time of Caesar with their rudimentary cryptography when sending messages to the armies or other politicians. This has advanced significantly to the pre-quantum computing cryptographic algorithms and post-quantum computing algorithms that are still being researched. One area that has lost attention is steganography. Without going into extreme detail, this method hides data, pictures, or other confidential

While our attention is focused these days on politics and other world affairs, cyber-attacks continue to occur. These attacks only highlight the fact that cyberattacks are not going to go away in the foreseeable future. In fact, cyber experts fear that such attacks are going to be growing in their sophistication and intensity as hackers continue to poke, probe and archive information. These attacks are causing people to ask what are the immediate issues that they should be co

In October we celebrate the annual observance of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). This annual event is brought about through the efforts of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Since 2004, October has been set aside as a time period in which Americans are encouraged to increase their awareness of the issues surrounding the security of their digital systems ­ cybersecurity. When NCSAM first began, computers