Technology

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.

Forbes magazine’s inaugural Cloud 100 list included eight companies that are of particular interest to accounting and tax professionals.

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.

Cloud hosting solutions provider Cloudnine Real Time has named Josh Clark president of the company.

FreshBooks, a provider of cloud-based accounting software for self-employed professionals and their teams, has redesigned its flagship platform.

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.