November 29 - GovTech 2009

This week's show [DOWNLOAD/LISTEN] is one of two upcoming 'TechTalk on the Road' shows. This week, Tom joins the GovTech 2009 event at the Brooklyn Marriott. Find out more about GovTech at www.govtech.com

We started 2009 with our coverage from the 2008 event. Once again, we're glad Sal joined us as well as Craig Hannah from EMC and Henry Jackson from the Office of Emergency Management.

The show will air Sunday at 5 pm EST | 3 MST & be ready for download or delivery to your inbox by Monday.

Our second 'TechTalk on the Road' with our coverage from the floor at the INTEROP NYC show. We are thinking about making it available online before it airs on KFNX. What do you think?

November 22- Week In Review

This week Tony and Tom looked at the "Insider Security Threat". We hope you enjoyed it. If you missed it, DOWNLOAD/LISTEN now.

Also, be sure to send a recovering soldier a holiday wish this year

Now for the stories in the Week In Review portion of the show:

• Interop: IT Forecast Says Clouds- Information Week- [JUMP]
• Solutions Are Designed to Boost Network Performance and Security- Information Week- [JUMP]
• Interop Conference: Cloud-Computing Technology or Business Strategy?- Inside Interop Blog- [JUMP]
• Interop Report: Cloud Communications- NoJitter.com- [JUMP]
• Web 2.0 Expo- O'Reilly Warns of Web War- Information Week- [JUMP]

Thanks so much for all of the support and we hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

November 22- "The Insider Security Threat"

Long time guest on the show, Tony Bradley stops by to talk about "The Enemy Within: The Insider Security Threat". He talks on where threats come from in companies and how companies can combine security and productivity in an efficient state.

The Week In Review portion of the show will also be dedicated to Interop NYC that is being held this week at the Javitis Center.

Tony is the 'Chief' Product analyst for Zecurion and is a syndicated writer for PC World. Tony has also been recognized by the Microsoft MVP Program for the past four years.

Tony always brings a great topic for the show, so do not miss it.

The show will air this Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 5 pm EST/ 3 pm MST on KFNX- 1100 in the Greater Phoenix area and can be streamed at this same time from this link.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the show!

November 15- Week In Review

Our show this past week was on the topic "How Young Generations Are Revolutionizing Retail" with our guest, Kit Yarrow. The show is available for listening by looking at this right side of this page and clicking the play button.

Now, for the stories featured in this Week In Review. The stories this week are dedicated to INTEROP NYC, especially what all will be going on during this event:

• Keynote Speakers at INTEROP 2009 NYC- Interop- [JUMP]
• Riverbed Embraces the Cloud at Interop NYC 2009- CNN News- [JUMP]
• Vyatta's Dave Roberts to Speak at Interop New York on "Breakthrough Network Technologies"- Marketwire- [JUMP]
• Attendees Ready to Spend at Interop New York- Earth Times- [JUMP]

Thanks for stopping by and encourage you to come back on Thursday for the show description of next week's show!

Fake IRS Email Scam

Fake IRS Email Scam – Underreported Income

Author: Thomas Ajava

If there is one agency everyone responds to, it is the IRS. Scammers know this and have developed a host of campaigns using the name of the agency to sucker taxpayers into releasing information. A new email scam uses the threat of underreported income to get consumers to download a malicious file.

The IRS has been trumpeting its efforts to close the tax gap. Depending on the year, the agency estimates that between $300 and $450 billion dollars in tax revenue goes uncollected. One of the primary reasons is the underreporting of income by taxpayers. The email scam currently circulating uses this issue as its basis.

The scam comes to your email box from a purported IRS email address. The subject line of the email states “unreported/underreported income [Fraud Application]”. The body of the email then states that you’ve underreported income and refers to a unidentified part of your recent tax return which is supposedly attached to the email. You are then supposed to download the attachment to verify it. As you can probably already guess, the download is a malicious file.

The IRS has come a long way when it comes to the digital age. That being said, the agency is very old school when it comes to dealing with taxpayer issues. By this, I mean that the agency never sends notices of action to taxpayers by email. Everything is sent by snail mail with most of the notices automatically being kicked out by a computer. If you ever get an email from the IRS, you can usually assume it is a fake. If you have any doubts as to its legitimacy, you can just pick up the phone and call the IRS to ask if you’ve been sent anything.

The new IRS email scam plays on the fear taxpayers have of the agency. Don’t be a sucker. Ignore it and don’t reward such conduct.

About the Author:

Thomas Ajava writes for PersonalIncomeTaxLawyersCharlotteNorthCarolina.com - locate personal income tax lawyers in Charlotte, North Carolina 24/7.

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