When it comes to combining fraud with entertainment the documentary medium is arguably the gold…
CFN original: Yes Meltdown and Spectre are real and your devices are at risk but don’t panic, correlation does not equal causation
By now, the terms Meltdown and Spectre would probably cause a spasm of terror throughout your body if someone were to mention them in casual conversation. And in some regards, the latest vulnerabilities (to put it lightly) are certainly a cause for concern. Anything...
Pivoting the fraud conversation to IOT devices and the future of hackable technology
Last week we wrote about the changing technological landscape of fraud. Moreover, we wrote about the necessary conversation that we should be having about defining and interacting with the ecosystem attached to fraud. An interesting thing about technology in the...
Redefining fraud: a technological conversation worth having.
In 300 B.C a Greek merchant by the name of Hegestratos committed fraud. At the time, large insurance policies were referred to as bottomry, which Hegestratos was familiar with and had under his name. Simply put, bottomry is where Hegestratos would borrow money and...
CFN Original: The future of Automatic Speaker Verification, in conversation with Rosa González Hautäki
Voice recognition and more recently facial recognition as a mainstream implementation of technology, has hit a fever pitch. In part because of the much lauded (deserved is another conversation) Iphone X and with Amazon’s Alexa or the Google Home. And while these new...