{"id":5735,"date":"2017-11-06T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T23:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=5735"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:13","slug":"wearables-voice-log-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/06\/wearables-voice-log-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearables to boost security of voice-based log-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A security-token necklace, ear buds, or eyeglasses developed at U-M could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ns.umich.edu\/new\/multimedia\/videos\/25171-wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in\">eliminate vulnerabilities in voice authentication<\/a>\u2014the practice of logging in to a device or service with your voice alone. &#8220;Increasingly, voice is being used as a security feature but it actually has huge holes in it,&#8221; said <strong>Kang Shin<\/strong>, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at U-M. &#8220;If a system is using only your voice signature, it can be very dangerous. We believe you have to have a second channel to authenticate the owner of the voice.&#8221;\u00a0The solution that Shin and colleagues developed is called VAuth, and it&#8217;s a wearable device that continuously registers speech-induced vibrations on the user&#8217;s body and pairs them with the sound of that person&#8217;s voice to create a unique and secure signature.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EJHUXgInBOk?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security-token necklace, ear buds, or eyeglasses developed at U-M could eliminate vulnerabilities in voice authentication\u2014the practice of logging in to a device or service with your voice alone. &#8220;Increasingly, voice is being used as a security feature but it actually has huge holes in it,&#8221; said Kang Shin, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at U-M.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/06\/wearables-voice-log-in\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[108,270,23,154],"class_list":["post-5735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-authentication","tag-hardware","tag-security","tag-voice"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/b_560_373_16777215_01_images_2017_wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in-orig-20171017.jpg",560,373,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/b_560_373_16777215_01_images_2017_wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in-orig-20171017-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/b_560_373_16777215_01_images_2017_wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in-orig-20171017-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/b_560_373_16777215_01_images_2017_wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in-orig-20171017.jpg",560,373,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/b_560_373_16777215_01_images_2017_wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in-orig-20171017.jpg",560,373,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/b_560_373_16777215_01_images_2017_wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in-orig-20171017.jpg",560,373,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/b_560_373_16777215_01_images_2017_wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in-orig-20171017.jpg",560,373,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/b_560_373_16777215_01_images_2017_wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in-orig-20171017-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/b_560_373_16777215_01_images_2017_wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in-orig-20171017-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/b_560_373_16777215_01_images_2017_wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in-orig-20171017-560x300.jpg",560,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/b_560_373_16777215_01_images_2017_wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in-orig-20171017.jpg",560,373,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/b_560_373_16777215_01_images_2017_wearables-to-boost-security-of-voice-based-log-in-orig-20171017.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A security-token necklace, ear buds, or eyeglasses developed at U-M could eliminate vulnerabilities in voice authentication\u2014the practice of logging in to a device or service with your voice alone. &#8220;Increasingly, voice is being used as a security feature but it actually has huge holes in it,&#8221; 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