HSBC voice recognition system cracked by twins

Dave Neal
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Cracking of HSBC's phone-banking security system comes one month after a warning that voice recognition security is critically flawed

HSBC's voice recognition security system has been cracked by a journalist using his twin brother to mimic him in an experiment that underlines warnings that relying on voice recognition alone is in...

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