Death, taxes, and hacks: How to prevent cyberattacks during tax season - Help Net Security

Death, taxes, and hacks: How to prevent cyberattacks during tax season - Help Net Security

Remember how folks did taxes in the olden days? They’d collect large piles of paper documents, fill out endless pages of forms, stuff a bunch of receipts in a shoebox and – after filing to the IRS – cross their fingers hoping they didn’t forget something that would hold up the processing of the return. (If you’re too young to recall any of this, just trust us – this happened regularly.)



Filing tax returns electronically


Fortunately, times have changed. There’s no need for massive roundups of hardcopies anymore, not when filers fill out and submit everything online. If they want to have copies for their personal record-keeping, they can print or save the filled-in forms (W-2s, 1099s, 1040s, mortgage interest/taxes paid statements, and so on).


death taxes hacks prevent cyberattacks during season security