Def Con contest pits hackers against facial recognition systems
A new contest was announced at the hacker convention Def Con in Las Vegas, pitting teams against each other as…
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Digital identity verification spending to pass $20B by 2027, but security challenges remain
Businesses around the world are spending $11.6 billion on digital identity verification this year, and that amount will nearly double…
SenseTime researcher presents progress on AI syncing faces with audio
The digital manipulation of faces can be used to spoof biometric systems or sow misinformation, but technology to coordinate face…
Gang spoofing fingerprint biometrics busted by India’s Cyberabad police
Seven persons suspected of cloning fingerprints to defraud poor farmers of money from their bank accounts through the Aadhaar Enabled…
Sensity alleges biometric onboarding providers downplaying deepfake threat
Deepfake videos have received breathless attention in popular for their potential as fraud instruments, from spreading misinformation to carrying out…
Dating apps aren’t that hard to fool with altered biometrics: researcher
A Stanford University researcher has used a generative adversarial network to exploit face biometrics vulnerabilities in two popular dating apps….
Adversarial image attacks could spawn new biometric presentation attacks
New research conducted by the University of Adelaide, South Australia, and spotted by Unite.AI has unveiled new security risks connected…
Arrests in Pakistan for fake fingerprint biometrics, NADRA breach alleged
Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested two men in Faisalabad for allegedly being involved in activating SIM cards with…
Canadian digital health pass easily spoofed, exposed data, developer claims
A web developer in Calgary, Canada created a fake vaccination credential under the name of an actor using a promotional…
Researchers use makeup to elude facial recognition via novel black-box attack
Researchers at Israeli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have found a way to thwart facial recognition cameras using certain software-generated…
