Security

Scam risks remain during pandemic; Security Summit focuses special week on taxpayer, tax professional protection against identity theft

WASHINGTON – With the 2022 tax season and the holidays rapidly approaching, the Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and the nation's tax industry today announced a special week focusing attention on taxpayers protecting sensitive financial information against identity thieves. Working together as the Security Summit,...

03 December, 2021

Email scam uses fake email addresses to redirect employees’ paychecks

Here’s a new nightmare for your employees: They wait for payday to make their personal payments only to find their funds are missing from their bank account. The head of your payroll department reminds your employee of the email s/he sent instructing her to change...

21 November, 2021

Be Alert: Employers Are Seeing a Spike in Phishing Scams

Phishing emails are a type of scam designed to obtain information or prompt certain behavior from their targets. To that end, they typically appear to come from a person or entity we trust. In most cases, careful inspection will reveal cracks in the façade, little signs...

05 January, 2021

From the HR Support Center: Tips for Keeping Your Company Data Secure

Small businesses are a popular target of cyber criminals. Thousands of attacks happen every day, successful ones can cost organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars, and over half of small businesses soon close following a successful cyberattack. Fortunately, there are effective measures you can take to...

24 June, 2019

Phishing Email Awareness for Evolution Payroll & Advanced HR Clients

At Payroll Partners, our clients' data security and privacy is of utmost importance to us. We're always monitoring trends in cyber security and fraudulent activity in order to prevent future attacks to our clients. With this in mind, we want to inform you there's been a...

29 May, 2019

Stop Using Social Security Numbers to Identify Employees

Identity theft is a growing crime in this country and the liability risk of employers is increasing along with it. The reason is all the sensitive personal information collected from employees, job applicants, customers, independent contractors, business partners, patients and others. The Federal Trade Commission reports...

07 February, 2018

Legal Risk: Illegal File Swapping Hurts Businesses

The media spotlight is on students at colleges and universities illegally downloading copyrighted music files, using college and university computers. The music recording industry is going after colleges and universities with legal actions, hoping to stem the growing tide of illegal downloading of music files. But...

10 October, 2017

Nine Tips to Staying Secure Online

We have all said it at one point – "It won't happen to me". Truthfully, any time we use the computer and internet, there is the potential risk of getting hacked or procuring a virus. It can happen to anyone, and the stakes are high...

31 May, 2017