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A face on a phone screen blinks. It turns its head. It smiles on cue. But the person behind that face never recorded a single second of it. According to Brazil's Federal Police, a gang built videos...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/facial-recognition-technology-fakes-face-steals-r-100-000

That little blue checkmark next to a name on Instagram? For about thirteen years, it meant a real person at the company had checked who you were. Today, on most major platforms, it mostly means...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/instagram-verification-how-a-paid-badge-hid-an-8m-scam

In February, the chairman of an Italian private bank got a WhatsApp message. It appeared to come from the chief executive of the banking group that owns his firm. The request was urgent. Help with a...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/ai-deepfake-scam-news-today-fake-video-call-costs-bank-95m

The fingerprint that unlocks your phone doesn't have to be attached to a living hand. According to researchers behind a study called Fingerprint Spoof Buster, fake fingers made from gelatin, silicone, and...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/fingerprint-scanner-gel-fingers-fool-it-70-of-the-time

Nearly eight in ten European kids between ten and fifteen have already slipped past the age limits on their apps. Most of them didn't hack anything. They just typed in a fake birthday.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/age-assurance-eu-plan-bars-under-13s-tests-kids-privacy

The most common reason a baby's passport photo gets rejected isn't a blurry shot or a bad background. It's a parent's hand. Even a single fingertip creeping in at the edge of the frame can send the...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/baby-passport-photo-why-a-parents-hand-gets-it-rejected

One ordinary photo. A school picture, a team photo, a smiling selfie from the beach. According to child-safety researchers, that's all a criminal now needs to create a fake explicit image of someone.

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/deepfake-ai-one-public-photo-is-all-blackmailers-need

Somewhere right now, a computer could describe your face without storing a single picture of it. It would use a list of roughly five hundred numbers. And when it compares your face to someone...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/how-does-facial-recognition-work-512-numbers-wrong-arrests

A twelve-year-old boy opened his father's fingerprint gun safe using his own finger. That safe had never been taught his fingerprint. It didn't need to be. This one's hard to...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/biometric-lock-how-a-12-year-olds-finger-opened-a-gun-safe

A grandmother in Canada picked up her phone and heard her grandson's voice. He said he'd been arrested. He needed money, and he needed it fast. She headed to her bank, ready to...

Full story: https://www.caracomp.com/blog/voice-cloning-technology-500-buys-scammers-a-kids-voice