There was a time when I was content to let my bank authenticate me over the phone by asking for some personal identifiers (SSN/DOB) that are broadly for sale in the cybercrime underground. At some point, however, I decided this wasn’t acceptable for institutions that held significant chunks of our money, and I began taking […]
Voice biometrics – technology that knows who you are based on your voice characteristics – is already being used by banks and telecom companies globally for better security, says Brett Beranek of software company Nuance Communications.
Pindrop Security, a startup focused on combating phone-based fraud, today announced the latest version of its flagship Fraud Detection System (FDS), which adds voice biometrics to its “Phoneprinting” technology. Now in Version 2.0, Pindrop Security’s FDS is able to confirm the identity, location, and type of device used for calls into a particular institution or […]
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