Lava Soft News

In this issue: Is It Safe to File Your Taxes Online? | Simple Tips to Keep Your Online Data Secure | How Anonymous Are You Online?

Tax season. It's not a favorite time of year for many, but the deadline for filing income taxes for many countries is quickly approaching. And, especially in areas of the world where e-filing is popular, we can expect to see a boost in the efforts of cyber scammers and identity thieves to trick users into giving out personal information or infecting their PCs with malware. In this issue, we take a closer look at how you can prepare yourself this tax season, and what steps you can take to keep your data secure. Best regards, Lina Nielsen Editor, Lavasoft News

Is It Safe to File Your Taxes Online? Find out how to prepare yourself and your PC for tax season scams.

Simple Tips to Keep Your Online Data Secure Is your confidential information safe from prying eyes?

How Anonymous Are You Online? These days, we share more and more personal details about ourselves online — whether intentional or not. Are you revealing more than you intend to?

Threat Check Find out which threats have been plaguing Ad-Aware users this past month.

New Targets in Detection Visit the Lavasoft Malware Labs blog to protect your privacy with new targets for February 2011.