The College of Administrative Sciences has organised its third research seminar series on 13 December 2015. A presentation was delivered by Dr Mohammad Al Hammami, a faculty member at the department of Management Information Systems and chaired by the Vice Dean of the College of Administrative Sciences Dr Ramzi Nekhili, over a research topic titled “Enhancing Mobile Phones Privacy Based on Steganography”.

In preparation for a conference participation, Dr Mohammad has studied the application of Steganography as a technique used to hide secret messages into SMS and MMS covers. He has developed a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) algorithm to embed secret messages into cover messages to generate Stego text (SMS) and an LSB algorithm to generate a so-called Stego image (MMS). These secret (hidden) messages are then extracted directly by their receiver. These algorithms are wrapped in a software for implementation by using J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) programming language, and the dependence flexibility of the software load on all mobile types having the same property of the sent messages.