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Nothing Gets Past the IRS
The IRS can’t afford to lose any fans and the recent news that its employees are likely to fall for social engineering tricks definitely isn’t attracting any new ones. In a recent test by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration, 60% of IRS employees surveyed gave away sensitive security information to researchers posed as computer help desk workers. The news is especially disturbing as hackers could use this information to access IRS computers and obtain taxpayers’ financial and personal information. To make matters worse, this isn’t the first time IRS employees have been tested for vulnerability to these tricks. The Inspector General conducted similar phone tests on IRS workers in 2001 and 2004. Pretty big learning curve if you ask us.
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