Pindrop CEO demonstrates audio deepfake and discusses biometric fraud prevention at RSA 2020
Criminals are using online content such as from YouTube to synthesize the voices of company CEOs and managers to commit…
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Liveness detection, FIDO2 and RSA grab headlines but Idex Biometrics tops this week’s news
RSA Conference managed to go ahead this week, and grabbed a fair share of headlines, as did FIDO2 and passwordless…
Advancing facial technology to fight identity fraud through liveness detection
This is a guest post written by Sarah Amundsson, senior business developer at Shufti Pro. Identity theft is one the…
Survey shows cybersecurity experts see risk of deepfake fraud, but few have taken action
More than three out of four cyber security decision-makers at financial services companies are concerned about the potential for fraud…
The heart betrays even more in an age of biometrics. Lasers now ID people
Proving that, with the right technology, almost anything associated with a living being can used as a biometric signature, researchers…
House Intelligence Committee chairman praised Facebook policy on deepfakes
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Facebook’s announcement this past week of its “new…
Consumer electronics and Africa drive the top biometrics and digital ID stories of the week
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas drove many of this week’s top biometrics and digital ID news items…
Microsoft Research, Peking University develop AI deepfake detector
Microsoft Research in partnership with Peking University has published two academic papers discussing a concept for face-swapping artificial intelligence and…
Deepfake technology to manipulate videos found in TikTok, Douyin apps
ByteDance and TikTok have quietly created Face Swap, a feature that leverages deepfake technology to let users manipulate videos by…
US defense bill requires comprehensive deepfake weaponization, countermeasures initiative
On December 20, President Donald Trump signed into the law the historic $738 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for…
