IRS unearths Dirty Dozen tax scams of 2012

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	IRS unearths Dirty Dozen tax scams of 2012 The Internal Revenue Service today issued its annual "Dirty Dozen" ranking of tax scams the agency say tend t osurface around tax season each year. "Taxpayers should be careful and avoid falling into a trap with the Dirty Dozen," said IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman in a statement. "Scam artists will tempt people in-person, on-line and by e-mail with misleading promises about lost refunds and free... Read More WEBCAST: HP, Microsoft & Intel Appliance video The first appliance in the industry which consolidates and manages thousands of databases, integrates hardware, software and support and is scalable to meet your changing business needs. Learn more In this Issue Note to Congress: Pass Cybersecurity Legislation Now Cool cop tech: 5 new technologies helping police fight crime Highlander bot: There can be only one? How to Become an Ethical Hacker Exactly what is the Homeland Security watching for on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube? Google Working on Password Generator for Chrome DDoS attackers start targeting IPv6 networks RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Palo Alto Networks Gartner Names Palo Alto Networks a Leader Palo Alto Networks was named leader for Enterprise Network Firewalls. According to Gartner, vendors in the leaders quadrant "lead the market in offering new safeguarding features, providing expert capability, rather than treating the firewall as a commodity, and having a good track record of avoiding vulnerabilities in their security products." Click to continue Note to Congress: Pass Cybersecurity Legislation Now Earlier this week, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) introduced a cybersecurity bill that would outline the Department of Homeland Security's responsibilities for overseeing cybersecurity at privately-owned critical infrastructure organizations. Read More Cool cop tech: 5 new technologies helping police fight crime CSI and its imitators have introduced TV viewers to some of the advanced technologies used by crime-scene investigators. But they aren't the only law enforcement personnel benefitting from technology; police officers across the nation have an arsenal of high-tech devices to help them investigate and solve cases. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Why Managing VMs is So Complex Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now! Highlander bot: There can be only one? "There can be only one." . . . There's nothing stranger than the truth and while the story behind a vicious new bot is a bit humorous, the malware most assuredly is not. Read More How to Become an Ethical Hacker Do viruses, DDoS attacks, or buffer overflows tickle your fancy? If so, you might consider becoming a legal hacker, aka an ethical hacker, "white hat" hacker, or penetration tester. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Comparison of Cisco and ShoreTel UC Solutions Compared with Cisco products, ShoreTel UC can offer numerous advantages, including streamlined deployment and management, easier scalability, and a significantly lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Read now! Exactly what is the Homeland Security watching for on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube? The idea that any number of federal institutions are watching your every move on social networks like Facebook, Twitter is unnerving at best. The Department of Homeland Security is one of those agencies and today it testified before a House subcommittee to define and defend its role in social media monitoring. Read More Google Working on Password Generator for Chrome Google is working on a new password manager for its Chrome browser that would also automatically create strong passwords for users. Read More DDoS attackers start targeting IPv6 networks Cybercriminals have started launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against networks that transmit data over IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), according to a report published recently by DDoS mitigation vendor Arbor Networks. Read More
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