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US Tax Season Fuels Surge in Email Scams

05

Apr

2016

As the US tax season draws to a close, authorities are warning of an alarming rise in “phishing” scams designed to steal sensitive personal and financial information. The Internal Revenue Service said earlier this year it has noticed “an approximate 400 percent surge in phishing and malware incidents so far in the 2016 tax season,” […]

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Governance the often-missing piece of Information Security

14

Mar

2016

It seems AT&T learned that lesson last year when it agreed to pay $25 million to settle an investigation into data breaches at call centers in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines. Those breaches led to the disclosure of personal information on some 280,000 U.S. customers. From November 2013 until April 2014, three call center employees […]

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The Encryption Debate: Law Enforcement Special Access Is Not a Solution

13

Oct

2015

On September 10, 2015, the #fbi Director James B. Comey continued advocating #law enforcement’s concerns that companies’ adoption of stronger #encryption without possessing a key to decode it creates an environment favoring criminals and impeding investigators. The debate about whether law enforcement should possess the ability to access #encrypted communications has risen to the surface […]

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