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Archives for 2021
‘FragAttacks’: Wi-Fi Bugs Affect Millions of Devices
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6 key areas of paid tax preparer regulation highlighted in AICPA letter to Congress
News Practice & Procedures By Dave Strausfeld, J.D. The AICPA welcomed the Biden administration’s recent request for congressional legislation to give the IRS the authority to regulate paid tax preparers who are currently unregulated. The Biden proposal, included in the recently released American Families Plan, requests Congress to pass legislation authorizing the IRS to regulate […]
C-Suite Changes to Come
The C-suite has expanded, but will the trend continue? Likely yes, but how depends on what your company values most. Credit: Rawpixel.com via Adobe Stock The C-suite makeup is more diverse now than it’s ever been. Although both VP and C-suite roles exist at some companies, in other cases the C titles have replaced VP […]
Inside DarkSide: Researchers share intel on break-out cyber gang
In the wake of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack – which continues to disrupt supplies of fuel across the eastern and southern US – threat researchers from across the cyber community have been swapping information on the DarkSide ransomware gang, the up-and-coming cyber criminal group that has suddenly found itself elevated to global infamy. First […]
CyberUK 2021: NCSC encourages startups to invest in cyber
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – alongside the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) – has issued new bespoke cyber security guidance for technology startups, aimed at protecting the UK’s valuable and innovative startup community from cyber attack by malicious actors, even nation-states, hell-bent on stealing their intellectual property. Launched at the […]
Microsoft fixes four critical bugs on lighter Patch Tuesday
In a lighter than usual Patch Tuesday drop, Microsoft has fixed a total of 55 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), four of them rated critical by Microsoft, and including three as yet unexploited zero days. However, it is practically a certainty that malicious actors will be paying close attention to the new disclosures and that […]
Wormable Windows Bug Opens Door to DoS, RCE
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IRS clarifies pandemic relief for dependent care assistance programs
With Notice 2021-26, the IRS explained on Monday that dependent care assistance program balances carried forward under temporary COVID-19 relief provisions retain their exclusion from participating employees’ gross income and wages. Dependent care assistance programs, authorized by Sec. 129, allow exclusion from gross income of employee amounts paid or incurred by the employer for dependent […]
Shifting Threats in a Changed World: Edge, IoT and Vaccine Fraud
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