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When voice deepfakes come calling

CIO Business Intelligence

And if they werent, multi-factor authentication (MFA), answers to security questions, and verbal passwords would solve the issue. Those days are behind us, as deepfake audio and video are no longer just for spoofing celebrities. A recent report found that fraudsters are not always trying to bypass authentication.

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Epic Games shuts down Houseparty app to focus on metaverse

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Houseparty, the social video app that launched in 2016 and soared in popularity during the pandemic, will be shutting down in October, the company announced Thursday.

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Notre Dame scores big with Wi-Fi 6E stadium upgrade

Network World

The new network supports a variety of advanced features such as ticketless entry, remote ordering at the concession stands, live streaming of real-time stats from Fighting Irish Media, and video chats between people in the stadium or anywhere in the world. In the teams first game on Sept. But theres a catch.

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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) should no longer be optional, especially as BYOD has become the norm.

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Cisco touts ‘Internet of Agents’ for secure AI agent collaboration

Network World

Todays infrastructure was built for humans sharing content like websites, emails, and videos. Agent communication platform: This layer provides the fundamental protocols and standards for how AI agents discover, authenticate, and interact with each other. But AI agents are fundamentally different, Pandey said.

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The hidden costs of your helpdesk

CIO Business Intelligence

When you add multi-factor authentication (MFA) resets to the picture, that number is likely even higher. Most authentication methods are actually quite easy to get around, and in many cases were never intended to be security factors. But what happens when a user can’t access their authenticator app?

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Phone spam-fighting startup Hiya rolls out Chrome extension that detects deepfake audio content

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Hiya announced the launch Thursday of its Deepfake Voice Detector as a free Google Chrome extension that can identify deepfake audio and video content. The company said it needs just a second of audio to determine if a voice is authentic or generated by a voice cloning tool.

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