The IRS is being proactive. With tax season fast approaching, they’re warning filers to beware of email scams designed by hackers to steal your information. In fact, they’re ramping up a 10-week “Don’t Take The Bait” campaign to heighten awareness of what is fast becoming an extremely sophisticated scam.

It’s not often that you read the words “Disney” and “trouble,” in the same sentence, but the company’s reputation is taking a big hit, thanks to a class-action lawsuit recently filed in California.

The claim is that a number of Disney’s apps, many that target kids under the age of 13, are being married to industrial strength behavioral analysis programs used to better target kids with marketing messages.

Recently, employees and contractors working for Virgin America Airline (now owned by Alaskan Airlines) received notification from the company that hackers may have gained access to their login and other personal data.

The company’s cybersecurity team discovered the intrusion attempt on March 13 and immediately put their response plan into action, informing law enforcement and contacting forensic experts to assist them in getting to the bottom of the issue.

A few low-end Android phones have been found to be infected with the Triada Trojan, according to the Russian Cybersecurity firm, Dr. Web, which discovered a variant of the malware lurking inside the Android OS Zygote core process.

In this instance, the likeliest point of insertion was via a third-party vendor, somewhere in the phone manufacturer’s supply chain.

Despite getting off to a somewhat rocky start, USB Type-C cables have been a boon to computer users everywhere by providing bidirectional transfer capabilities, which essentially gives Type-C cables two “lanes” to work with.

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group recently announced that things are about to get even better and faster when they released the new USB 3.2 specification.

Several tech giants have plans in the works to expand the number of people who have access to broadband.

Google’s plan would use a series of low-orbit satellites to beam wireless signal all over the globe. Facebook has plans on the drawing board that involve gliders.

The third-party Chrome extension Copyfish recently got hacked. As a result, the hackers were able to inject malicious JavaScript code into the code base and use it to display ads on all the pages users who had the extension installed viewed.

It took Copyfish’s developers a full day to realize they had been breached, and by that time, the hacker had transferred the extension to his own developer account, where it was beyond the reach of its original owners.

One of the most dangerous forms of banking malware, dubbed “Svpeng,” has recently gotten an upgrade that makes it even more troubling, this, according to researchers at Kaspersky Labs. The upgrade adds a new keylogging feature that allows the malicious software to track and log each keystroke, sending it back to the hackers at whatever interval they wish and giving them another means to steal an infected user’s sensitive information.

Smart devices are coming under increasing scrutiny. Why, you ask? Very few of them have any security at all, and the ones that do tend to have only the most rudimentary security protocols in place, which presents almost no challenge to even a novice hacker.

Patrick Wardle is a name you may not be familiar with, but if you’re a Mac user, it’s a name you need to know.

He’s an ex-NSA hacker chief and is now the chief security researcher for Synack, and over the past few months, he’s been hot on the trail of an incredibly elusive bit of malware called Fruitfly.