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How to Put Your Driver’s License on Your Phone

November 1, 2023/in Mobile Security

How nice would it be to never again realize that you forgot your driver’s license in your other pants? Well, if you have a smartphone—and if you live in one of the US states that supports it—you can start carrying a digital version of your ID with you everywhere.

A recent Android update expands Google’s digital ID program that lets users store their personal IDs in digital form within Google Wallet. This includes driver’s licenses and other official state IDs. Apple launched a similar feature in Apple Wallet in 2021. Digital identification cards (for both platforms) are available in just a handful of US states right now: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, and Maryland. Both Apple and Google say residents of more states will be able to load their driver’s licenses onto their phones eventually, but that depends on local governments making the necessary policy and digital infrastructure changes.

Some other states are content to maintain their own services for displaying your digital ID. California has its own mobile driver’s license app, as does Utah. Both Google and Apple hope to build out their ID storage capabilities, but with so many government agencies involved, the process is slow going. Meanwhile, the US Transportation Security Administration accepts digital drivers licenses at just over two dozen airports across the US; you can find a map of those airports on the TSA website.

Digital IDs in both Apple and Google Wallets work in tandem with your phone’s bio-authentication features to verify that the person holding the phone is the person whose ID is on there. When you are asked to show your ID, you’ll be prompted to unlock the feature by scanning your face with Face ID or using your fingerprint scanner, just like you would with a contactless payment.

If you live in a state that supports digital ID management, here’s what to know about storing your government-issued ID card on your phone.

How to Add Your ID to Google Wallet

Google Wallet should be preinstalled on your Android device, but if not, then redownload the app. You’ll need to have a screen lock enabled, which Google requires so that nobody other than you is able to use your ID or your payment cards.

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Caesars: Driver’s license, Social Security data of loyalty members stolen in cyberattack

September 14, 2023/in Computer Security

Steve Marcus

An exterior view of the porte cochere at Caesars Palace Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

By Ray Brewer (contact)

Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023 | 7:49 a.m.

Data from members in the loyalty program at Caesars Entertainment was compromised this month when an unauthorized actor acquired a copy of the program’s database, including the driver’s license and Social Security numbers of members, the resort said in a report to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“After detecting the suspicious activity, we quickly activated our incident response protocols and implemented a series of containment and remediation measures to reinforce the security of our information technology network,” officials wrote in the report, which was released today. The attack happened Sept. 7, they said.

“We also launched an investigation, engaged leading cybersecurity firms to assist, and notified law enforcement and state gaming regulators,” the company said.

Caesars paid a roughly $30 million ransom to hackers, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The report with the Securities and Exchange Commission doesn’t mention a ransom payment.

Caesars has properties up and down the Las Vegas Strip, including Caesars Palace, Horseshoe, Harrah’s, Planet Hollywood, Paris, Flamingo and Linq.

Caesars said it “identified suspicious activity in its information technology network resulting from a social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor used by the company.” The company said its customer-facing operation — both in-person and mobile gaming applications — weren’t impacted.

This is the second reported cybersecurity attack on a prominent Las Vegas resort company this week. MGM Resorts International wasn’t as fortunate with the disruptions to its operations.

The attack resulted in a shutdown that prevented credit card transactions and crashed the BetMGM sports betting mobile app and company websites. It also prevented digital access to guest rooms, halted some slot machine play and provided the company plenty of bad publicity.

Some visitors to its properties still weren’t able to access their rooms digitally as of Wednesday, relying on staff to provide physical keys.

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LTO bugged by delays in license processing

September 11, 2022/in Mobile Security

THE delays in the processing of driver’s license applications and motor vehicle registrations continue in various Land Transportation Office (LTO) sites nationwide, including Metro Manila.

The Manila Times learned that LTO frontliners were forced to render additional working hours even on weekends to process the backlogs as a result of what has been described as the “worst slowdown” in the Land Transportation Management System (LTMS).

LTO-Davao South District Office chief Melencio Diaz Jr. said their employees volunteered to work without pay even on their days off just to catch up with a month’s worth of backlog.

Another LTO official who asked not to be identified said there were issues of slowdown in their system in the past but these were immediately resolved, unlike the current problem which has been going on for more than two weeks now.

The LTMS delay was first reported in the last days of August. Long queues, frustrated customers and “offline” advisories posted on transaction windows were some of the common scenes at LTO sites in the past weeks.

Although an investigation into the “system slowdown” was initiated by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) last week, LTO clients who shared their frustrations on social media blamed the agency’s system provider, Dermalog, for the problem.

Students and employees said that transacting at the LTO was a “hassle,” and they were forced to miss school or work due to the intermittent connection of the LTMS.

The LTMS is part of the digital shift program of the national government. In 2018, LTO awarded the said IT project, through a Joint Venture Agreement, to Dermalog and three other local companies.

The Commission on Audit (CoA) earlier flagged the LTO for the “undue payment” given to Dermalog despite…

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