Deepfakes: Increasing fake news and identity theft in 2020
This is a guest post by Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic. Earlier this year, a video was published…
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Senate deepfake bill introduced after House passes companion legislation
The bipartisan Senate version of legislation passed out of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in late September…
International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics – IWBF 2020
International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics – IWBF 2020 Porto, Portugal April 29-30, 2020 The 2020 International Workshop on Biometrics…
Automotive biometrics and new facial recognition projects top most read identity news this week
Biometric facial recognition deployments for event security at the Olympics, law enforcement around the world, secure area access control and…
International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics seeks papers for conference presentation
The 2020 International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF 2020) has issued a call for research papers in the areas…
Pindrop report finds 90 voice fraud attacks occur every minute
Coinciding with the release Tuesday morning of deepfakes of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson endorsing opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn for…
Adobe probes tool that detects, reverses facial digital manipulation to fight deepfakes
Adobe, Twitter, and the New York Times have recently joined forces to draw attention to image manipulation and come up…
Jumio launches fully automated identity verification solution with FaceTec biometrics
Jumio has launched a new real-time, fully automated biometric identity verification technology designed to remove friction from the onboarding process…
Insider perspectives and government engagement top this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
Insider perspectives on biometric security, and airport and event applications were the top theme of the week for the most…
Amazon and Twitter take steps against deepfakes
The need to consider synthetic media and its dissemination over social media has been acknowledged by Twitter, which plans to…
