Security News

Black Hat 2019: Bounties, Breaches and Deepfakes, Oh My!
2019-08-23 15:31

Black Hat 2019 recently wrapped in Las Vegas, where somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 experts descended to experience the latest developments in the world of cybersecurity. While we saw the...

Who will save us from deepfakes? Other AIs? Humans? What about vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings?
2019-08-09 11:04

Maybe Douglas Adams was right about mice Black Hat Deepfakes, the AI-generated talking heads that can say whatever their creator wants them to, are getting harder to detect. But boffins have...

ZeroFOX’s new AI capabilities improve detection of deepfake videos
2019-08-09 09:10

ZeroFOX, the leading provider of advanced artificial intelligence-powered digital risk protection, announced at Black Hat USA 2019 the latest evolution of its artificial intelligence (AI)...

Deepfake revenge porn now a crime in Virginia
2019-07-05 09:42

It's the first state to enact a deepfakes ban, but it's not going to be the last: laws are being considered in many other states.

Facebook keeps deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg
2019-06-13 14:35

"Whoever controls the data, controls the future," says the evil Zuck, who, according to the platform's current policy, won't be taken down.

New research generates deepfake video from a single picture
2019-05-29 11:02

Now it's easier for attackers to produce deepfakes, even if the target doesn't have much existing footage. Like the Mona Lisa.

Misinformation Woes Could Multiply With 'Deepfake' Videos
2019-01-28 12:10

If you see a video of a politician speaking words he never would utter, or a Hollywood star improbably appearing in a cheap adult movie, don't adjust your television set -- you may just be...

Deepfake pics and videos set off Facebook’s fake news detector
2018-09-17 12:08

The social network is expanding its effort to stamp out fake news.

Tumblr outlaws creepshots and deepfake porn
2018-08-29 11:51

The blogging site wants to go back to a simpler time, where, it says, people were a lot nicer ... and didn't glorify gore and upskirting.

Deepfakes porn service: Don’t worry, we’ll only use “consenting adults”
2018-08-23 10:33

"You," or "footage that you swear is of a consenting adult," though details on how that will be ascertained by Naughty America are sketchy.