Phishing

The Internal Revenue Service issued a warning urging taxpayers to beware of scammers calling and emailing them about the stimulus payments they are expecting as a result of last week’s CARES Act.

The IRS cautioned tax professionals about a new version of a phishing email scam targeting them.

Anything that heightens fear and anxiety is a boon to online scammers, which is what makes the current coronavirus pandemic prime time for cybercriminals to try and trick people into giving their money away to the wrong people.

A new TurboTax phishing scam is going around, and cybersecurity experts are warning taxpayers to be vigilant this tax season to protect themselves against cybercrime.

As new technology offers more work flexibility, it also increases the risk of data breaches.

The new resource includes what to do if you're the victim of ID theft, and advice for tax professionals.

Strong cybersecurity and employee training are crucial to preventing phishing attacks.

NCCPAP’s Stephen Mankowski shares the service’s plans on cyber awareness, implementing the Taxpayer First Act, new forms and more.

The recent spate of ransomware attacks against cloud-based accounting platforms has left many firms on edge, wondering about the security of data within their own firms.

Criminals are sending unsolicited emails with subject lines like “Automatic Income Tax Reminder” or “Electronic Tax Return Reminder” that appear to come from the IRS.

It's easier than ever for cybercriminals to gain access to a firm’s entire network. Can the good guys win this fight?

Deloitte has expanded its strategic alliance with Relativity to offer Relativity Trace, a compliance monitoring application, to help clients detect and mitigate violations of industry regulations and organizational e-communication policies.

An ideologically divided U.S. Supreme Court gave businesses more power to channel disputes into individual arbitration proceedings, siding with a lighting retailer trying to prevent its employees from pressing group claims stemming from a phishing attack.

The service names its annual ‘worst of the worst’ tax scams.

Firms are spending top dollar of late on security training for their staff, which is a good idea considering most security breaches are the result of social engineering.

It should come as no surprise to learn that cybercrime is on track to cost the global economy more than $600 billion in 2018.

Phishing and the season’s latest scams; FBAR whistleblowing returns; best sales-tax questions; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The IRS is warning practitioners that a range of frauds are on the rise, and may only increase as filing season approaches.

Criminals are faking tax transcripts to fool recipients into clicking on and opening documents containing malware that could infect their computers.

No practitioner wants to discover that their client’s data has been compromised.