Cyber Security

In 2020, the FBI reported 1.4 million cybersecurity complaints, mostly identity theft, up from 651,000 in 2019. The Federal Trade Commission received 4.8 million cybercrime complaints in 2020, up from 3.3 million in 2019. According to the Internet Crime Report, the cost to victims was...

16 June, 2022

WASHINGTON — As more tax professionals consider teleworking during COVID-19, the Internal Revenue Service and the Security Summit partners urged practitioners to secure remote locations by using a virtual private network (VPN) to protect against cyber intruders.  A VPN provides a secure, encrypted tunnel to transmit...

13 November, 2020