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Commissioner advises taxpayers of free Connecticut income tax filing

Saturday, March 1, 2014 9:56 PM EST

NEW BRITAIN As Connecticut enters the peak 2013 Income Tax Filing season, Department of Revenue Services (DRS) Commissioner Kevin B. Sullivan today reminded state tax filers that free state income tax filing options are available to taxpayers.

No one ever needs to pay a fee for state tax preparation or filing, Said Commissioner Sullivan. The DRS on-line Taxpayer Service Center (TSC) provides free electronic filing and a wide variety of reliable community resources are available for free state income tax preparation include participants in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA), the Free File Alliance, AARP Tax Counseling for the Elderly and others.

We are always surprised to hear that taxpayers use free software to file their federal income taxes but then pay for the same service to file their state return, Sillivan added. More than 70 percent of taxpayers qualify for free income tax filing assistance. Those who dont can use the TSC to file. Its fast, free, secure, and incredibly easy.

Sullivan also reiterated his advice to low income working taxpayers, especially those eligible for the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Taxpayers should call Infoline 211 to learn about available free tax preparation assistance to avoid paying fees that are exorbitant for the services actually provided.

Its the time of year when dubious tax preparation businesses and promotions seem to sprout on every corner, he said. Too many over-charge, provide bad advice, push high cost tax financing, and even encourage tax fraud. Every year, taxpayers also make the mistake of allowing dubious storefront commercial tax preparers to receive refund payments and skip town without paying taxpayers the refund they are owed.

Sullivan also noted that DRS has begun an agency project to develop standards for commercial tax preparation and make recommendations to the Governor and State Legislature in 2015.

For more information visit ct.gov/DRS and click on 2013 Income Season.

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Attack code bypasses Microsoft zero-day protection software

Summary: Researchers have demonstrated methods to bypass EMET, suggesting that cybercriminals can do the same.

Researchers say they have developed malicious code which is able to bypass Microsoft's zero-day protection software, EMET.

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is free software developed by the Redmond giant which is designed to protect user and enterprise systems from a number of vulnerabilities and exploits. Standard, basic protection -- certainly not perfect, but no software is -- but good enough for a number of older attacks and flaws.

However, exploit code developed by researchers at Bromium Labs (.pdf) circumvents a number of protections available within EMET, which means that hackers could also do the same in order to install malware or malicious code on to an unsuspecting user's computer.

A whitepaper published by the security firm on Monday night details the exploit. The proof of concept exploit code, shared with Microsoft before being made public, shows that there are limitations to the free software and includes real-world examples where damage control functions -- sprung after the detection of malicious code -- were fully bypassed.

While the researchers say that EMET excelled in stopping pre-existing memory corruption attacks and techniques which use return oriented programming (ROP) -- a facet many types of malware currently use -- it is best used with older platforms like Windows XP, as Windows 8.1 already utilizes a number of protections found in EMET separately.

According to Ars Technica, which viewed the presentation of the research at the BSides SF 2014 security conference in San Francisco, the researchers claimed that every protection EMET offered was torn apart, including stack pivot protection, export address table access filtering and the blocking of ROP.

In a blog post, Bromium researchers said:

"The impact of this study shows that technologies that operate on the same plane of execution as potentially malicious code offer little lasting protection. This is true of EMET and other similar userland protections. Thats because a defense that is running in the same space as potentially malicious code can typically be bypassed, since there's no 'higher' ground advantage as there would be from a kernel or hypervisor protection.

We hope this study helps the broader community understand the facts when making a decision about which protections to use."

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