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…
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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…
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…
Kaspersky introduces fake fingerprint ring to highlight biometric data security issues
To get around the theoretical problem of irrevocable biometric data being hacked, Kaspersky has teamed up with a jewelry designer…
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…
Voice biometrics spoof nets fraudster $29M
The U.S. subsidiary of financial media giant Nikkei, has been victimized by a voice biometric spoof attack that netted a…
Chinese researchers reveal method to bypass biometric fingerprint scanners in smartphones
Chinese security researchers from X-Lab security at Tencent challenged fingerprint security in a presentation at the GeekPwn 2019 conference in…
FaceTec launches first biometric bounty program for liveness detection spoofing
FaceTec has launched a liveness detection spoof bounty program with a total of $30,000 possible payouts, the company announced. Ethical…
ID R&D scores lowest error rate for logical access in voice biometric spoofing challenge
The Global ASVspoof Challenge has been completed, with ID R&D announcing it achieved the highest accuracy evaluation in the logical…
