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WASHINGTON – March 17th, 2017 — The Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and the tax industry today warned both tax professionals and taxpayers of last-minute phishing email scams, especially those requesting last-minute deposit changes for refunds or account updates. As the 2017 tax filing season winds down to the April 18 deadline, tax-related scams
TAXES. SECURITY. TOGETHER. The IRS, the state of Michigan and the tax industry are committed to protecting you from identity theft. They’ve strengthened partnerships with taxpayers and tax preparers to fight a common enemy – Cyber Criminals!. Working together, they’ve made many changes to combat identity theft, and are making progress. However, cybercriminals are constantly
Cybercrime activity is escalating and shows no sign of slowing down. That’s a fact of life in the early 21st century. Information stolen from computer systems is used by cyber criminals in a variety of ways, but one of the most common scenarios is to open credit cards or bank accounts on behalf of a
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When you have a few minutes and want to watch something intriguing, take a look at this link, and if appropriate, share it with friends: https://map.norsecorp.com/ This is a real-time Web Attack map which demonstrates why are we so focused on cyber security. This is not fictional. These automated attacks are occurring 24x7x365. The bad
Late last week our FBI issued a Public Service Announcement warning about fake government websites being hosted by criminals with the intent of stealing information and money from US citizens. The sites are designed to look like real government websites and have Internet Domain Names (URLs) that look like real government sites. Consumers are directed
Secunia, a Software Vulnerability Management company, recently reported that during 2014, “the absolute number of vulnerabilities detected in software was 15,435, discovered in 3,870 applications from 500 vendors. The number shows a 55% increase in the five year trend, and a 18% increase from 2013 to 2014.” These statistics are frightening to me, and should
Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995, and now owned by Oracle. It is estimated to be installed on 850 million personal computers and on 3 billion devices worldwide, including consumer electronic and mobile devices. As the installation base of Java software has grown and become more
The threat of a cyber-breach is no longer a threat, but a reality. All of the major data breaches that we’ve heard about in the past six months – Sony, Anthem, Chase, JamieOliver.com – all have one thing in common: they thought they were protected! It has become painfully obvious that the bad guys have
Passwords are the keys to our digital world. Like physical keys, they should be treated with respect and only given to those people who need to “unlock” something, in this case a computer or website. Unlike physical keys, they are easily stolen, discovered or duplicated without the permission or knowledge of the user who owns
