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Tax-refund phishing scams hit an all-time high
News Anyone who receives a tax refund phishing email is encouraged not to open it, send it to phishing@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk for investigation and then delete it from their computer. The number of scam emails... [16 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up Incidents of the phishing email, which typically starts "Following a review of your fiscal activity you are due a refund of tax of £XXX", have reached the thousands this month. It warns that "criminal... [24 Jul 2009]
Getting a tax refund? Don't be too sure
News Incidents of the phishing email, which typically starts "Following a review of your fiscal activity you are due a refund of tax of £XXX", have reached the thousands this month, and led to increased... [23 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The cloud cometh
Comment All our data - banking details, credit card activity, passport driving licence, national insurance, tax, medical records and so on - is stored somewhere but we don't know where. If I steal an email, or... [02 Apr 2009]
The Recipe for Data Management
White Paper For even modestly sized production systems, the storage requirements to support QA, development, test, stand-by, and disaster recovery can tax storage and IT resources. Unlike email or content management... [01 Apr 2009]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News It found that systems such as Paye, National Insurance, Child Benefit and Tax Credits are operating as separate systems, each with their own individual customer record. HMRC begins to communicate with customers via... [26 Jun 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News The tax post system is undocumented and untraceable, despite a fully IT-enabled track-and-trace service being available from the offices. This HMRC employee then puts the discs in a jiffy bag, addressed to the NAO in... [26 Jun 2008]
Shell to outsource 3,200 IT jobs
News The oil group has been quoted as saying it plans to make pre-tax cost savings of about $500m per year through streamlining its structure and cutting and outsourcing jobs. An email to staff from the VP of... [02 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... this little piggybacker, don't talk trash, analyse this...
Comment Why should the end user end up paying a third party tax collecting body merely because producers over whom we have no control insist on producing so much packaging? The only problem with the survey claiming support from... [30 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.07.07
Round-Up Or to get all Daily Mail about this current state of affairs.while single mothers and the jobless are all swanning off to the Costas or Orlando to enjoy some hard-scrounged largesse on the backs of honest tax payers, the... [06 Jul 2007]
The hard reality of virtual world litigation
Comment He claims that he was induced into investing in virtual land by the press announcements of Linden and Rosedale and he asserted that he paid real money to Linden as tax on his virtual land. He claimed that Linden sent him... [14 Jun 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: Mobile advertising at work?
Comment After all, who wants to pick through the intricacies of the latest drug trials or tax regulations during a two minute wait at the bus stop? Why not facilitate SMEs' adoption of GPS or mobile email with a... [27 Feb 2007]
Editor's Blog: Don't knock e-government until you've tried it
Comment But it's not in front of your house.and calling to complain about what I considered unfair charges after failing to pay a council tax payment on time. I didn't receive any kind of 'ticket now closed'... [17 Nov 2006]
Smart phones scream to be saved from theft
News The salvaged data included everything from personal banking and tax information to corporate sales activity notes to even former corporate client records, product roadmaps, contact address books, computer passwords, and... [30 Aug 2006]
Treasury denies PC tax plan
News Sir Digby Jones, director general of the CBI, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK in an email: "This unexpected policy change flies in the face of the government's pledge to reduce red tape, cut businesses'... [04 May 2006]
