"App uses smartphone compass to prevent voice hacking"

Voice-based smartphone apps can pose serious security threats to users via voice hacking. Attackers could use audio samples of users’ voices for impersonation to deceive people and digital security systems in order to retrieve sensitive information. Therefore, a team of engineers are developing an app to end voice hacking with the help of tools already established on smartphones such as the compass. This article further discusses forms of voice recognition attacks and the details of this development.

UB News Center reports "App uses smartphone compass to prevent voice hacking"