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IRS Security Weaknesses Revealed

March 23rd, 2005  |  Published in Current Affairs  |  1 Comment

"More than one-third of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees and managers who were contacted by Treasury Department inspectors posing as computer technicians provided their computer login and changed their password, a government report said Wednesday." (See story at CNN.com)

Which just goes to show you that social engineering is still one of the most effective ways to gain access to otherwise secure systems. Scary, isn’t it?

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  1. Glacier says:

    April 6th, 2005 at 7:08 pm (#)

    The IRS might want to audit our tax records again.

    How stupid can they be?

    It is just another system failure. They didn’t know!

    I wonder if the Treasury Department really cares?

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