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IRS Warns of Dirty Dozen 2012 Tax Scams

The Internal Revenue Service this week issued its annual "Dirty Dozen" ranking of tax scams the agency says tend to surface around tax season each year.

17 Feb 2012 9 mins

Government Markets Security

The FBI and the DOJ Want You to Report Suspicious People and Monitor Social Networks. Goodbye Liberty

Some of the worst consequences of terrorism come not from the real dangers that terrorism poses but in our efforts to defend ourselves from something that is incredibly hard to define and predict.

17 Feb 2012 5 mins

Government IT Internet Social Networking Apps

Attackers have All They Need From Leaky Cellphone Networks to Track You Down

GSM cellular networks leak enough location data to give third-parties secret access to cellphone users' whereabouts, according to new University of Minnesota research.

17 Feb 2012 3 mins

Security Wi-Fi

Blue Coat Systems Taken Private for $1.3 Billion Cash

Security vendor Blue Coat Systems is once again a private company after the company's shareholders confirmed a December takeover that values the company at $1.3 billion (APS830 million).

17 Feb 2012 2 mins

Networking Security

Book Publishers Shut Down EBook-Sharing Operation

The digital transformation requires CISOs and CIOs to keep the wheels moving while innovating to lead their companies into the future.

30 May 2017

Investigation and Forensics Technology Industry

Book Publishers Shut Down EBook-Sharing Operation

Two file-sharing sites that allegedly made hundreds of thousands of copyrighted ebooks available as free downloads have been forced to close, after a coalition of book publishers obtained an injunction against them.

17 Feb 2012 3 mins

Internet Legal Security

Twitter Enables HTTPS By Default

Twitter has enabled secure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTPS) for all its users by default, meaning that traffic on the micro-blogging site is now encrypted, providing better protection against man-in-the-middle attacks.

17 Feb 2012 2 mins

Encryption Social Networking Apps Twitter