TrueCrypt Alternatives Step Up Post-Cryptanalysis

msm1267 writes: What’s next for TrueCrypt now that a two-phase audit of the code and its cryptography uncovered a few critical vulnerabilities, but no backdoors? Two alternative open source encryption projects forked TrueCrypt once its developers decided to abandon the project in early 2014, giving rise to VeraCrypt and CipherShed — and both are ready to accelerate growth, compatibility and functionality now that the TrueCrypt code has been given a relatively clean bill of health. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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It’s Very, Very Easy for Hackers to Steal Your IRS Account

The only thing that sucks worse than doing taxes is a hacker stealing your identity, doing your taxes for you, and then depositing your return in a random bank account, where it can later be transferred to Nigeria. Sound impossible? It’s not, according to the story of an unlucky man named Michael Kasper. Read more…

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It’s Very, Very Easy for Hackers to Steal Your IRS Account

Download Your Tax Return Transcripts Straight from the IRS

Tax returns are one of those documents you should hold onto . But in case you’ve misplaced some, don’t feel like digging them out of storage, or would just like to have a digital copy, you’re in luck. You can now download your tax transcripts from the new IRS service Get Transcript . Read more…        

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