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Consumers will be able to do more proof-of-identity transactions with government agencies online, in a NSW pilot program. The digital ID reforms - part of a strategy since 2015 - aim to give people in NSW the option to use digital credentials, instead of physical documents, for various state licences, certifications and qualifications. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: New Australian app that will verify our identities. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> A key initiative was the rollout in 2019 of the digital driver licence. Digital Government Minister Victor Dominello says pilot s this month will make it possible to renew working with children checks and do proof-of-age checks for online alcohol purchases online via Service NSW. NSW residents had embraced digital driver licences and Dominello said the NSW Digital Identity “would take things to the next level”. Strong cyber security was “at the heart” of the overhaul and its pilot program s, Dominello said ...

British officials are warning organisations about integrating artificial intelligence-driven chatbots into their businesses, saying that research has increasingly shown that they can be tricked into performing harmful tasks. In a pair of blog posts due to be published Wednesday, Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said that experts had not yet got to grips with the potential security problems tied to algorithms that can generate human-sounding interactions - dubbed large language models, or LLMs. The AI-powered tools are seeing early use as chatbots that some envision displacing not just internet searches but also customer service work and sales calls. The NCSC said that could carry risks , particularly if such models were plugged into other elements organisation's Business processes. Academics and researchers have repeatedly found ways to subvert chatbot s by feeding them rogue commands or fool them into circumventing their own built-in guardrails. For examp...

A US  cyber security advisory panel will investigate risks in cloud computing that will also include Microsoft Corp's role in the recent breach of government department email systems by suspected Chinese hackers, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) will focus on risks to cloud computing infrastructure, including identity and authentication management, and will look at all relevant cloud service providers, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. The report comes after Oregon Senator Ron Wyden in July asked the Federal Trade Commission, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Justice Department to "take action" against Microsoft following the hack. Microsoft has been under increasing scrutiny following revelations that hackers allegedly operating on Beijing's behalf got hold of one of its cryptographic keys and took advantage of a coding flaw to win sweep...

Thousands of Australians are among the five million people whose personal data has been stolen by cyber criminals in the last five years, a new study has found. Cyber crooks were able to use bots to steal 26.6 million usernames and passwords since 2018, with the sensitive data of 10,000 Australians impacted, according to the NordVPN study. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: How to safely store and manage your passwords. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> Among the logins were details for 720,000 Google accounts , 654,000 Microsoft profiles and 647,000 Facebook logins , which are then sold on a bot market for an average price of $6 each. The study, which analysed three major bot markets — Genesis, the Russian market and 2Easy — also found Netflix, Paypal, Amazon, Instagram and Apple Store logins listed for sale. Experts say criminals use data-harvesting bot malware that steals logins together with cookies and device configuration information — the combination of which he...