The field of secure media and authentication is rapidly evolving, with a focus on developing innovative solutions to counter emerging threats. Researchers are exploring new techniques to enhance the security and robustness of various systems, including voice authentication, visual cryptography, and audio watermarking. A key direction in the field is the development of more sophisticated and resilient methods to detect and prevent spoofing attacks, deepfakes, and other forms of media manipulation. Another area of focus is the improvement of data hiding and steganography techniques to protect sensitive information and ensure the integrity of digital media. Notable papers in this area include: Evolving k-Threshold Visual Cryptography Schemes, which proposes a new construction for k-infinity VCS that applies to arbitrary k values without pixel expansion. SyncGuard: Robust Audio Watermarking Capable of Countering Desynchronization Attacks, which introduces a learning-based scheme to address the challenges of audio watermark localization and resistance to desynchronization attacks. Uncovering and Mitigating Destructive Multi-Embedding Attacks in Deepfake Proactive Forensics, which formally defines and demonstrates the existence of Multi-Embedding Attacks and proposes a general training paradigm to enhance the robustness of existing methods.