18+ hour, 20+ min ago   (531+ words) For many, the word “deepfake” still has a twinge of novelty about it – a hint of science fiction. But the cute era of generative AI is over, as criminals leverage it to create fake identities that are flooding the online…...

1+ day, 3+ min ago   (411+ words) By Dave Rossi, Managing Director at National Hunter Credit unions have long relied on personal relationships, local knowledge and community trust to assess applicants. But organized fraud increasingly exploits those same strengths. Synthetic identities, stolen credentials and AI-generated documents now…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (641+ words) Identity fraud continues to increase rapidly, and accounted for nearly three in five reported risk cases in the UK during the first six months of 2026, according to Cifas anlaysis of National Fraud Database figures. It is increasingly digital, it increasingly…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1005+ words) By Michael Hubbard, Chief Customer Officer, Ping Identity At the center of this transformation sits digital identity and the level of assurance behind it. As organizations accelerate their AI strategies, a new challenge is taking shape. How do you extend…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (697+ words) Not having to worry if someone is real on a video-call on the device most people carry around with them would be reassuring. Real-time inference is making this happen, as Scam.ai and Qualcomm have developed on-device deepfake detection. Scam....

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (891+ words) The Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure says governments must build trusted digital infrastructure before AI can scale across public services. As governments rush to adopt generative AI, the Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI) argues many risk repeating the mistakes…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (514+ words) Dispel has added government ID verification, facial matching and liveness detection to its operational technology (OT) remote access platform, allowing organizations to verify the real-world identity of users before granting access to industrial systems. Dispel Identity validates a government-issued identity…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (593+ words) This is the challenge facing the identity and authentication ecosystem. The current work of organizations like WE BUILD and the FIDO Alliance points toward EUDI Wallets, verifiable credentials and delegated identity becoming the trust layer for agentic AI – and a…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (474+ words) South African startup aiQ Cognitive Technologies says it has developed a new approach to digital identity that derives a persistent digital identifier directly from an individual rather than from credentials, documents or conventional biometric matching. The company describes the technology…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (399+ words) As AI‑generated fraud rises, and video‑based scams seek out high-value targets, the fightback is afoot. The Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) in Darmstadt, Germany, has come up with a prototype. Deepfaked live-video scams are increasing. Singapore…...