That Frantic Call From Your Kid? It Might Be a Scammer With 3 Seconds of Their Voice.

That Frantic Call From Your Kid? It Might Be a Scammer With 3 Seconds of Their Voice.

Three seconds. That's all a scammer needs of your child's voice to clone it. Not three minutes. Not a recorded phone call. Three seconds of audio — pulled from a video they posted online — is now enough to recreate their Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-frantic-call-from-your-kid-it-might-be-a-scammer-with-3-seconds-of-their-vo

Your Kid's Face, Their Data: The Age-Check Trap Nobody Warned You About

When a website tries to guess your teenager's age from a selfie, it's wrong by more than a year on average. And that's on a good day — perfect lighting, clear photo, nothing in the way. That tiny marg Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-kids-face-their-data-the-age-check-trap-nobody-warned-you-about

Fake Photo, Real Jail: 45 Days for the Lie That Fooled a Judge

A man in Kentucky spent forty-five days in jail. Not for a crime in the usual sense. He submitted a photo to a court — and a judge decided that picture was fake. This is the cas Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/fake-photo-real-jail-45-days-for-the-lie-that-fooled-a-judge

Mom's Voice Just Called Begging for Money. It Wasn't Her.

Scammers don't need a recording of your whole conversation anymore. They need about three seconds of your voice. Three seconds — a voicemail greeting, a clip from a video you posted — and they can build a copy that fools Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/moms-voice-just-called-begging-for-money-it-wasnt-her

That 95% Face Match Could Be a Total Lie — Here's the Trick Fooling the Camera

Imagine a security system gives you a ninety-five percent face match. Ninety-five percent confident it's really you. And yet — the face the camera saw was never real to begin with. A fraudster swapped the image before the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-95-face-match-could-be-a-total-lie-heres-the-trick-fooling-the-camera