Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) revealed that the institution has a new cybercrime division launched to combat tax fraud attempts.
The team’s purpose is to shut down shady websites that claim to have connection to HMRC, to issue reports regarding the hijacking or misuse of passwords and other se... |
14 March 2012
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Security researchers from Belgian email security provider MX Lab warn about a new wave of HMRC tax refund phishing emails that is currently hitting people's email inboxes.The rogue emails have forged headers to appear as originating from a srvcs@hmrc.gov.uk address and bear a subject of "Please Submit Your Payme... |
1 April 2011
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Cybercriminals have launched phishing campaigns to try and profit from the news that up to six million people have overpaid or underpaid their taxes for the past two years in UK.It was recently uncovered that taxation blunders have lead to 1.4 million UK taxpayers paying less money in taxes and 4.3 million paying in ... |
6 September 2010
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The Internet really needs a watchdog because the amount of malware heading our way, and by that I mean the inexperienced public, there's no way we could fend all of the attacks on our own, with just some anti-virus, be it upgraded on a regular basis. McAfee and the other security software vendors are going that ... |
26 February 2008
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Jeremy Clarkson, famous for hosting the Top Gear TV series, lost about 500 pounds after someone managed to set up a direct debit transfer to the charity Diabetes UK, BBC News informed today. And all of this happened after the popular TV presenter decided to publish his bank account details into the newspaper, just to... |
8 January 2008
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Yep, this is another data loss confirmed by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs, but this time only 6,500 people were affected. I'm starting to get used to it and I think Britons are not worried anymore, because those data losses tend to become a part of their lives. Personally, I can't imagine my persona... |
19 December 2007
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November and December came with a worrying high number of data losses that makes the security experts, from all around the world, give advises for a better and more powerful computer protection. Following the recent two major UK data leaks, concerning the HMRC and the DWP, Calum Macleod, European Director with Cyber-... |
5 December 2007
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Following the recent HMRC data loss that affected approximately 25 million people, the consumers and the security companies from all over the world commented on the disaster, many of them saying that it could be prevented using a powerful security technology. A recent study conducted by security vendor Sophos reveale... |
27 November 2007
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Everybody heard of the UK disaster which put the information of 25 million consumers at risk after two CDs sent by a HMRC employee didn't reach the destination and nobody knows a thing about them. But it seems that the UK authorities are now prepared to take measures to avoid similar problems in the future and t... |
27 November 2007
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And the story continues. This time, we have an official statement from HMRC which published a 'Child Benefit customer update' on its official page to provide more information about the recent tragedy. In case you missed the news, although it's pretty difficult especially if you're living in UK, th... |
22 November 2007
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Earlier this day, it was reported that the government confirmed a major data loss caused by the HM Revenue and Customs, the UK tax department which collects taxes and works with a huge amount of residents details. Obviously, the data leakage brought at least interesting statements of the security vendors which fight... |
21 November 2007
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Today's major data loss caused by a HMRC employee shocked everybody around the world but especially the UK residents who suffered the most because of this trouble. Since it was somehow a security problem (the HMRC copied the sensitive data of 25 million UK residents on CDs and lost them), the security vendors fr... |
21 November 2007
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The HM Revenue & Customs is one of the departments owned by the British Government which is supposed to take care of tax collecting and other reponsabilities related to tax administration and organization. Since it works with residents' financial details, it's pretty important to secure the entire amount of... |
21 November 2007
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