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Taxpayer Cybersecurity – Step 5: Create a Data Theft Recovery Plan
The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to assess their data security policies and review critical … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber scams, Cyber Security, Data Breach, Data Protection, Identity Theft, IRS, Personal Information
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Taxpayer Cybersecurity – Step 4: Recognize Identity Theft
The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to assess their data security policies and review critical … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber Security, Data Breach, Data Protection, E-mail phishing, Identity Theft, IRS, Notification, Personal Information
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Taxpayer Cybersecurity – Step 3: Avoid E-mail Phishing Scams
The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to assess their data security policies and review critical … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber scams, Cyber Security, Data Breach, E-mail phishing, Identity Theft, IRS, Malware
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Taxpayer CyberSecurity — Step 2: Create A Data Security Plan
The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to assess their data security policies and review critical … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber Security, Data Protection, IRS, Personal Information, Uncategorized
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Taxpayer CyberSecurity — Step 1: Protect Your Systems!
In March 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) convened an unprecedented coalition of state tax agencies and private-sector tax industry officials to fight back against emerging criminal syndicates exploiting sensitive taxpayer information by creating the Security Summit. The Security Summit … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber Security, Data Protection, IRS, Personal Information, Privacy
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Celebrate National Tax Security Awareness Week!
While it may be better known as “Cyber Monday”, today also marks the start of the second annual National Tax Security Awareness Week (November 27 to December 1). The Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and the tax industry are … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber Security, Identity Theft, IRS
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Identity Theft Protection Services — Federal Income Tax Treatment
For those unfortunate folks dealing with identity theft, here’s a ray of good news. Snell & Wilmer’s tax and data privacy lawyers recently published a Legal Alert that explains recent announcements by the Internal Revenue Service on the subject of … Continue reading
Posted in Data Breach, Government Regulations, Identity Theft, IRS
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