The Internal Revenue Service today reminded taxpayers to be cautious and protect personal, financial and tax information, particularly at tax time. This is the sixth in a series of 10 IRS tips called the Tax Time Guide , designed to help taxpayers navigate common tax issues.
Category: Social Security
Online security can help protect you from cyber thieves
The hacking theft of credit and debit card numbers should make everyone, including students, more careful about protecting their money from cyber thieves. The following measures can help, according to KHEAA.
Releases Top10 Predictions on China’s Medical IT Industry
Chinese hospitals will adopt 20% more robots by 2020, and more cognitive computing and artificial intelligence systems and devices will be widely used in the country’s hospitals, according to recent IDC report IDC FutureScape: Top10 Predictions of Healthcare IT 2017 China Implications . “The medical IT industry is undergoing revolutionary changes.
What Is Retirement Anyway?
Or is it better considered as Erik Erikson’s 8th stage in which the task is to accept one’s life and affirm it – mistakes, failures, and all – with wisdom. We can look to myths for help with major life passages in sources as varied as Yoda from Star Wars, Iron John from the Brothers Grimm, and Warren Buffett.
Data Breach at PIP Printing Company Leaks Thousands of Highly Sensitive Documents
An online security breach at a national printing chain leaked thousands of sensitive documents – from labor filings involving NFL players to lawsuits against Hollywood studios to personal immigration-related papers – raising the possibility that private information could end up in the wrong hands. The leak at PIP printing, which has more than 400 locations in 13 countries, went on for four months before it was repaired Tuesday, cybersecurity experts involved in investigating the breach told NBC News.
Tax Tips for the Self-Employed
Working for yourself has a ton of benefits – a flexible schedule, the opportunity to pursue projects you love, and the ability to work in your pajamas. While being self-employed can be truly rewarding, it can also be something of a headache come tax time.
Universal Basic Income Explained – How a fringe idea could redefine the welfare state
It’s the theory that connects everyone from civil rights leaders to American founding fathers, from left-wing politicians to titans of industry, a dream conceived in left-wing Academia, and possibly realised in Fife. Universal Basic Income , the idea that everyone should be given a set amount of money each month, might seem like a money haemorrhaging fantasy, but it is gaining more traction in mainstream politics.
Sunrun hack nabs employee W-2 tax forms
SunRun installers Will LaRocque and Brandon Anderson install one of 28 Q-Cell panels on a home on Friday, July 15, 2016 in Sunnyvale, California. SunRun installers Will LaRocque and Brandon Anderson install one of 28 Q-Cell panels on a home on Friday, July 15, 2016 in Sunnyvale, California.
Renown Hacker: ‘People, Not Technology, Most Vulnerable Security Link’
Despite their link to drugs, murder, extortion-you name it-we glamorize old-time organized crime figures like Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. These gun-toting thugs, donning pin-striped suits and fedoras and smoking the finest Cuban cigars, exuded a certain class and charm despite their wrongdoings.
Dracut schools hacked
The personal information — including Social Security numbers — of current and former Dracut Public Schools employees has been stolen in a cyberattack, according to Superintendent Steven Stone. The district confirmed on Friday that an employee fell for a sophisticated phishing scheme that allowed the perpetrators of the attack access to the information.
Tennessee mayor wants FBI investigation into courthouse hack
A Tennessee county’s mayor wants the FBI to investigate who hacked into the courthouse’s server five months ago. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank made the request in a letter to U.S. Attorney Nancy Harr before Christmas.
8 things to do when your identity is … 32 minutes ago
More and more of our Christmas shopping was done from the convenience of our computers, smartphones or other online devices. However, the simplicity of online shopping also brings the risk of having your credit card, Social Security number or other sensitive data stolen.
Re: Always some not trusting robots
I rather believe in the society postulated in the movie The Sleep Dealer: millions of robots with fallable AI,and the solution was to link a human operator to each robot. The person served no longer had to see the person serving, because impoverished peoples worked by telepresence over the internet, and never had to leave their villages.