voice recognition
Fake IT help desk callers got by on little more than names and email addresses
Attackers posing as IT help desk staff contacted employees by phone, email and Microsoft Teams in the third quarter of 2026 and talked them into opening remote access …
Voice cloning defenses are easier to undo than expected
Many voice protection tools promise to block cloning by adding hidden noise to speech. Researchers at a Texas university found that widely used voice protection methods can be …
Your photo could be all AI needs to clone your voice
A photo of someone’s face may be all an attacker needs to create a convincing synthetic voice. A new study from Australia’s national science agency explores this …
Smart helmet tech points to the future of fighting audio deepfakes
Voice cloning has become fast, cheap, and convincing. With only a few minutes of recorded speech, generative models can recreate a person’s voice with matching tone, rhythm, …
Audio deepfakes: What they are, and the risks they present
Audio deepfakes are becoming a big problem. Recent cybercriminal campaigns use voice cloning technology to replicate the speech tone and patterns of celebrities such as Elon …
Cybercriminals can break voice authentication with 99% success rate
Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo have discovered a method of attack that can successfully bypass voice authentication security systems with up to a 99% …
How to ensure that the smart home doesn’t jeopardize data privacy?
The smart home has been much hyped for what feels a very long-time, but I think it is fair to say that the smart home era is now truly upon us. This status has been almost …
Consumers fed up with passwords and KBAs, looking to voice enabled technology as the future
Pindrop released the findings of a survey that explores how 2000+ US-based consumers feel about the future of voice enabled technology and how it will impact their everyday …
Combating deepfakes: How we can future-proof our biometric identities
How worried should we be about deepfakes? What sort of threat do they pose to digital ID verification and the biometric technology that we are becoming so reliant on, and are …
Number of users of software-based facial recognition for payments to surge
The number of users of software-based facial recognition to secure payments will exceed 1.4 billion globally by 2025, from just 671 million in 2020, a Juniper Research study …
New technique protects consumers from voice spoofing attacks
Researchers from CSIRO’s Data61 have developed a new technique to protect consumers from voice spoofing attacks. Fraudsters can record a person’s voice for voice …
Researchers use ultrasound waves vibrating through tables to access cellphones
Ultrasonic waves don’t make a sound, but they can still activate Siri on your cellphone and have it make calls, take images or read the contents of a text to a stranger. …
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