Phishing

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.

A small accounting firm is just as much of a target as a Fortune 500 company, says white-hat hacker David Kennedy.

Tax pros remain a major target of sophisticated hackers.