{"id":17550,"date":"2012-10-30T10:18:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17550"},"modified":"2012-10-30T10:18:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T15:18:20","slug":"detecting-photoshopped-images-a-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/detecting-photoshopped-images-a-primer\/","title":{"rendered":"Detecting Photoshopped images – a primer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure almost everyone saw dramatic and scary images of “Hurricane Sandy” like this one that went round my friends’ Facebook timelines yesterday:<\/p>\n

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As you’ve probably guessed from the title, this is a ‘shopped image. RJS Security<\/a> has a quick primer on detecting doctored images using this example:<\/p>\n

Whenever a major media event happens (like Hurricane Sandy), we are inundated with news. Sometimes that news is useful, but often it merely exists to create FUD\u2026 Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. While I have not personally seen any malware campaigns capitalizing on the event yet, it is inevitable. The pattern is generally as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. Event hits the news as media outlets try to one-up eachother to get the word out.<\/li>\n
  2. People spread the warnings, making them just a little bit worse each time they are copied.<\/li>\n
  3. Other people create hoaxes to ride the wave of popularity.<\/li>\n
  4. Still other people create custom hoaxes to exploit the disaster financially.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A few minutes ago, at least in my little corner of the internet, we hit stage 3 when this image was posted<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    H\/T to Bruce Schneier<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m sure almost everyone saw dramatic and scary images of “Hurricane Sandy” like this one that went round my friends’ Facebook timelines yesterday: As you’ve probably guessed from the title, this is a ‘shopped image. RJS Security has a quick primer on detecting doctored images using this example: Whenever a major media event happens (like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[347,391,439,206],"class_list":["post-17550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-debunking","tag-facebook","tag-photoshop","tag-severeweather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4z4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17555,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17550\/revisions\/17555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}