Our voices are just about as unique as our fingerprints - so how would you feel if your voice was cloned? A new type of deepfake known as voice cloning has emerged in recent months, in which hackers use artificial intelligence (AI) to simulate your voice. Famous faces including Stephen Fry, Sadiq Khan and Joe Biden have all already been victims of voice cloning, while one unnamed CEO was even tricked into transferring 243,000 to a scammer after receiving a fake phone call. But how does it work, and just how convincing is it? To find out, I let a professional hacker clone my voice - with terrifying results.

October is quite the busy month. Not only is it the start of the fourth quarter and the third-quarter earnings season, but October is also Cybersecurity Awareness Month. So, today I'd like to raise some awareness on a new type of cybersecurity breach. During the coronavirus pandemic, cybercrime has risen by over 600%, and now the malicious hackers are becoming more creative by using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to evade detection. For example, with AI, hackers are now using data poisoning to target data used to train the machine learning systems.