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The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – Child Identity Fraud, Tech Support Scams, Amazon Key In-Car Delivery
This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for April 30, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions, Silent Pocket and CISOBox. This episode ...
When Identity Thieves Hack Your Accountant
The Internal Revenue Service has been urging tax preparation firms to step up their cybersecurity efforts this year, warning that identity thieves and hackers increasingly are targeting certified public accountants (CPAs) in ...
Tax Day: Identity Theft Begins Much Earlier Than April 15
Tax Day is on the horizon. This year it falls on April 17 because of the weekend and a Washington, D.C., holiday. That gives you two extra days to get your taxes ...
Combating W-2 Fraud, An Avalanche of False Positives and Wasted Time
Nobody likes tax season. Except perhaps the cybercriminals who are successfully scamming users into sharing their W-2 information. Year over year, the number of IRS-related phishing scams targeting individuals and companies continues ...
Coinbase releases data of 13,000 customers to IRS
Following a court battle with the IRS, online cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will provide the records of 13,000 users to the tax collection agency, the company announced on Feb 23. The government will ...
Form W-2 data thefts are rocketing, warns FBI
Businesses beware! Online criminals have ramped up their attempts to steal W-2 information from the finance and human resources departments of organisations, according to a warning issued by the FBI. In an ...
IRS Tax Fraud and IRS’s Woeful Cybersecurity
In late July, the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) issued the results of audit on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and its woeful state of information security, a state which continues to ...
