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Large Language Models and Elections

Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee released a video that it claims was “built entirely with AI imagery.” The content of the ad isn’t especially novel—a dystopian vision of America under ...

Detecting Deepfake Audio by Modeling the Human Acoustic Tract

This is interesting research: In this paper, we develop a new mechanism for detecting audio deepfakes using techniques from the field of articulatory phonetics. Specifically, we apply fluid dynamics to estimate the ...
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Cyberinsurance: Federal Court Interprets Banking Fraud Policy

It’s like déjá vu all over again. A company purchased cyberinsurance and paid premiums for years. They had a cybersecurity incident, filed a claim and—guess what? The insurance company refused to pay ...
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Your CEO Isn’t Real: How to Deal With Deep Fakes

The history of deep fake technology is surprisingly long. Researchers at academic institutions have been developing deep fake tech since the early 1990s. The idea is even older, as popular science fiction—like ...
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Barracuda Networks Report Shows Spike in Bait Attacks

A report published by Barracuda Networks this week finds 35% of 10,500 organizations analyzed were targeted by at least one bait attack in September 2021, with an average of three distinct mailboxes ...
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AI-Fueled Deep Fakes Signal New Era of Cybercrime

Information manipulation has been around since Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote “The Art of War” in 550 BC. The Russians routinely use disinformation tactics to destabilize democracies. Events like the 2020 U.S ...
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Propaganda as a Social Engineering Tool

Remember WYSIWYG? What you see is what you get. That was a simpler time in technology; you knew what the end result would be during the development stage. There were no surprises ...
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Detecting Deepfake Picture Editing

“Markpainting” is a clever technique to watermark photos in such a way that makes it easier to detect ML-based manipulation: An image owner can modify their image in subtle ways which are ...