Tag: Voice Recognition
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Fido Alliance adds a biometrics certification program to help fight spoofing
In a move aimed at upping standards across biometric user verification systems, the industry consortium, Fido Alliance, has launched a …
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Researchers show Alexa “skill squatting” could hijack voice commands
The success of Internet of Things devices such as Amazon’s Echo and Google Home have created an opportunity for developers to build …
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Hacking Voice Assistant Systems with Inaudible Voice Commands
Hacking Voice Assistant Systems with Inaudible Voice Commands Turns out that all the major voice assistants — Siri, Google Now, Samsung S Voice, Huawei HiVoice, Cortana and Alexa — listen at audio frequencies the human ear can’t hear. Hackers can hijack those systems with inaudible commands that their owners can’t hear. Read full news article…
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Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
Security researchers in China have invented a clever way of activating voice recognition systems without speaking a word. By using high frequencies inaudible to humans but which register on electronic microphones, they were able to issue commands to every major “intelligent assistant” that were silent to every listener but the target device. Read full news…
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Mozilla wants to hear your voice – but should you keep quiet?
Is voice recognition technology really something we want the open-source community to break loose from the big corporations that have developed it and held it tight? Is it technology we want to see used far and wide? Read full news article on Naked Security
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News in brief: twins fox bank’s voice security; FCC moves on net neutrality; torrent site closes
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Twins thwart bank voice recognition A bank has said it will review its security procedures after a reporter and his twin brother tricked its voice authentication service. HSBC claimed last year when it launched its voice recognition system that it was secure, saying…
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