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New technique can defeat voice authentication “after only six tries”

June 30, 2023 0 Comments AI, audio, authenticate, authentication, deepfake, edit, editing, fake, patterns, personal, tags, vocal recognition, voice recognition

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We take a look at research which claims a way to bypass voice recognition security by stripping synthetic aspects out of fake recordings.

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Microsoft now reviewing Skype audio in ‘secure’ places (not China)

January 14, 2020 0 Comments audio, china, clips, Microsoft, Privacy, privacy policy, skype, voice assistants, voice recognition

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:51:15 +0000

A former contractor in Beijing: “It sounds a bit crazy now […] that they gave me the URL, a username and password sent over email.”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MmxOcairoTY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Robot Hotel says sorry about the buggy bedside bots

October 24, 2019 0 Comments androids, bed-bots, code signing, henn na hotel, his group, his hotel group, japan, nfc tag, peeping toms, Privacy, robot hotels, robots, security threats, smart speakers, surveillance, tapia, unsigned code, voice assistants, voice recognition, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:39:48 +0000

Japan’s Henn na Hotel says it’s “modified” the bots so pervs can’t exploit the ability to run unsigned code and spy on future guests.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/6qgRyj8P2OY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple apologizes for humans listening to Siri clips, changes policy

August 30, 2019 0 Comments Alexa, Apple, contractors, Cortana, Google, Microsoft, Privacy, privacy policy, Siri, voice assistants, voice recognition

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:35:34 +0000

Apple is turning off automatic review of Siri audio and locking it down so that only Apple employees get to listen to it.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YC7GTRUdtR8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook got humans to listen in on some Messenger voice chats

August 15, 2019 0 Comments AI, audio, contractors, Data Protection Commission, eavesdropping, facebook, GDPR, Ireland, Law & order, Messenger, Privacy, Social networks, transcription, voice chats, voice recognition

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:15:55 +0000

Facebook says it’s paused the practice of collecting voice clips and sending them to employees to transcribe and analyze.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ygMZYoeBESk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>