Data and information management

Practice Platform now sends push notifications and lets accounting professionals start item-related comment threads with their customers.

A data breach in the Internal Revenue Service’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, tool, which the IRS was forced to shut down last month, may have affected up to 100,000 taxpayers.

The home stretch of tax season will see fraudsters’ biggest push – but cybersecurity expert Kevin O’Brien says that taxpayers and tax professionals accountants will still need to protect themselves after that.

The Internal Revenue Service saw a sharp drop-off in tax returns in the first half of filing season, according to a new report.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified at a Senate hearing Thursday about tax season, a day after a group of House Republicans wrote to President Trump asking him to fire Koskinen.

A new report from IBM’s security research group sheds light on how tax scam emails are proliferating.

Internal audit departments are increasingly relying on data analytics technology and hiring more people who have sophisticated data analysis skills, according to a new survey.

A new report from the Government Accountability Office questions the usefulness of services such as identity monitoring, credit monitoring and identity theft insurance, particularly when it comes to safeguarding against tax refund fraud.

The Internal Revenue Service has seen a proliferation in the past 24 hours of a phishing email seeking to steal tax practitioners’ usernames and passwords for the IRS's online services.

The Top 100 firm is adding a cybersecurity company based in Lexington, Ky., effective April 1.

The Internal Revenue Service failed to deactivate its Identity Protection Personal Identification Number program after a data breach in May 2015 for nearly a year, despite repeated recommendations from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, according to a new report.

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No matter how small your firm is, your clients’ information is very tempting to hackers.

The Internal Revenue Service is continuing to face challenges with identity theft and taxpayer service this tax season, although there have been some improvements since last year.

The IRS is seeking nominees for its Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee.

Security is the main advantage of using a client portal, but each portal product has a range of functional beauty (and hassle) that informs which tool will be the best fit for a particular firm.

The close management software company has partnered with Microsoft, Egnyte, Google and Okta.

Cindy Fornelli, executive director of the Center for Audit Quality, talks in this podcast about her organization's recent celebration of its first decade and the trends in audits and investor confidence in the financial markets.

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The technology also allows for the secure storage of documents in a location of the clients’ choosing.