Data security

The owner of a small tax practice shows how everyone can make a difference in the fight against this scourge.

The IRS has tips for tax preparers to prevent identity theft in the approaching filing season.

XBRL US and ConsenSys have formed a working group to develop standards for the tokenization of assets on blockchain.

The IRS and its Security Summit partners have declared the week of Dec. 5-9 “National Tax Security Awareness Week.”

Devious fraudsters target clients through you

The Internal Revenue Service needs to provide better security when transmitting taxpayers’ personal information to outside government agencies, banks and contractors, according to a new report.

Some Internal Revenue Service employees didn’t do enough to protect sensitive taxpayer information when they were sending emails, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service has launched the second year of its public awareness campaign aimed at improving taxpayer security in partnership with tax software companies, tax preparation chains and state tax authorities.

CIOs see significant gaps between IT capabilities and business expectations in areas including innovation and cybersecurity, according to a recent survey by Big Four firm Deloitte.

KPMG has joined the Industry Affiliates Program at the Data Science Institute at Columbia University.

The Internal Revenue Service didn’t do enough to mitigate risks in some of its information technology contracts, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service convened a meeting of its Security Summit partners in the tax preparation industry and state tax authorities Thursday to discuss additional steps they can take to safeguard tax refunds from identity theft next filing season.

The Internal Revenue Service continues to fall short in its cybersecurity efforts, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service is postponing a security upgrade to its e-Services for tax professionals in a new setback for the agency.

The Internal Revenue Service added new data elements last tax season to its computer system filters to catch suspected cases of identity theft-related tax fraud totaling $4.1 billion, according to a new report, but it posted information about the secret data elements on its public website IRS.gov before removing it.

They’re just old habits. You likely do them without even thinking. But these 10 habits could be making your company vulnerable to hacks and other cyberattacks.

EFilecabinet CEO Benoy Tamang shares the practices that are endangering your firm’s and your clients’ information

The accounting sector has arguably been slow to adopt new technology, eschewing new, and often unproven, technology for older, tried and true tools. However, in the immortal words of Bob Dylan, “the times they are a-changin’”.

The American Institute of CPAs has issued a new report on the growing threat of “executive impersonation,” in which criminals claiming to be corporate executives convince employees to send them sensitive documents and company information.

The Assurance Services Executive Committee of American Institute of CPAs has released two sets of criteria on cybersecurity for public comment, which the institute hopes will start to lay the groundwork for a new set of assurance services.