Ushering in tax season, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released its annual “Dirty Dozen” tax scams for 2012.

While this has been designed for U.S. citizens, most of the advice is useful for any tax payer.
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Satelite navigation systems are at risk from criminals, terrorists or even just bored teenagers, with the potential to cause major incidents from maritime disasters to chaos in financial markets, leading experts warned on Wednesday.

From maps on car dashboards and mobile phones, to road tolls, aviation and marine navigation systems and even financial exchanges, much of modern life relies on Global Navigation Satelite Systems (GNSS) that use satelite signals to find a location or keep exact time. [Read full story...]

A British student who breached security at Facebook last year has been sentenced to eight months in jail, despite arguing that his intentions were not malicious.

Glenn Mangham, who had previously been rewarded by Yahoo for finding vulnerabilities in its systems, unlawfully accessed and hacked into Facebook’s computer systems between April and May last year from his bedroom in York. [Read full story...]

Imation announced its unified Secure Data, Identity and Mobile Workspace product set, which brings together a combination of encrypted USB storage devices and media, encryption and encryption key management, authentication technology, device and policy management software, and mobile workspace solutions. [Read full story...]

Iran’s recent death sentence of a developer and internet traffic throttling are only part of Iran’s wider campaign against bloggers, technology, and the free-flowing information of the internet.

In mid-January it was reported that web developer Saeed Malekpour had been sentenced to death in Iran for allegedly building and maintaining porn websites. [Read full story...]

Leading senators introduced a cybersecurity bill on Tuesday aimed at safeguarding the nation’s water and power systems, which experts have warned often only have the most rudimentary protections against hackers.
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A hacker, identified as a 17-year-old based in Morocco, claims to have stolen the personal information of 350,000 users from hardcore porn mavens Brazzers.

The point, claims the hacker, was to highlight a security vulnerability on the adult site.
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Microsoft India’s online store was forced to close after an apparent hacking attack from a group calling itself Evil Shadow Team.

For a while after the attack, reports said screen shots of customers’ details were posted on the site before it was taken offline by the company.
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It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and the spammers are out in force to make the most of unwitting shoppers on the international day of love.

Looking to buy a present for someone this Valentine’s Day? Ooh look what popped into my inbox, an email inviting me to buy my Valentine an *ahem* “romantic” gift.
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Ticketing agent TicketWeb says it is investigating an online attack which saw an “unauthorised party” contact their customer database.

Customers were sent “up to” four emails on Saturday 11 February asking them to click on a software update. [Read full story...]