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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 277 days ago
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-taxes27feb27,1,5509545.storyBy Christian Retzlaff and Kim MurphyLos Angeles TimesFebruary 27, 2008BOCHUM, GERMANY -- Investigators have traced more than $296 million in German assets to secretive foundations in Liechtenstein in a widening, worldwide tax-evasion investigation in which 163 Germans have admitted guilt, prosecutors said Tuesday.Separately, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service announced that it was initiating enforcement action against 100 American taxpayers i read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 252 days ago
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As April 15th looms and tax season starts entering its frenzied home stretch, individuals and corporate accountants contemplating their tax return may find themselves wondering just how much they can, let us say, fudge the numbers. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 251 days ago
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http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151988-1.htmlBy Mary MosqueraFCW.comMarch 20, 2008The Internal Revenue Service needs to take more action to monitor and enforce compliance with security policies and procedures, and provide more effective guidance, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a new report.Although IRS has made progress in its information security, it needs to be more comprehensive, the IG said. For example, the agency did not validate actions taken to correct security weaknes read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 236 days ago
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http://www.fcw.com/online/news/152179-1.htmlBy Mary MosqueraFCW.comApril 8, 2008The IRS did not put in place sufficiently strong access controls for its routers and did not monitor security configuration changes in order to identify inappropriate use, putting information about taxpayers at risk, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) said in a report released April 7.The IRS sends sensitive taxpayer and administration information across its networks, so routers on the networks must h read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 202 days ago
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Scammers want your IRS refund checks and have devised at least one phishing scheme to get it, according to the FBI. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 201 days ago
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/five-irs-employ.htmlBy Kevin Poulsen Threat LevelWired.comMay 13, 2008Five workers at the Internal Revenue Service's Fresno, California, return processing center were charged Monday with computer fraud and unauthorized access to tax return information for allegedly peeking into taxpayers' files for their own purposes."The IRS has a method for looking for unauthorized access, and it keeps audit trails, and occasionally it will pump out information about who's do read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 87 days ago
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Taxpayer bewareThe US Internal Revenue Service is putting tax payers at risk by operating thousands of web servers that contain security vulnerabilities or have not received proper authorization, a new report has concluded.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 87 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 04:42:47 -0500 (CDT)http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153690-1.htmlBy Mary MosqueraFCW.comSeptember 4, 2008Unauthorized and insecure Web servers connect to the Internal Revenue Service’s network, which puts the agency’s computers and entire network at risk of unauthorized access to taxpayer and personally identifiable information, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a recent report [1].The IRS has 1,811 unapproved inte read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 45 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:29:35 -0500 (CDT)http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=166144By Kelly Jackson HigginsSenior EditorDark ReadingOCTOBER 16, 2008The Internal Revenue Service left taxpayer data exposed by deploying two major computer systems despite knowing that they harbor security vulnerabilities, according to a report [1] released publicly today by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).The inspector general office says th read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 32 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:02:47 -0600 (CST)http://www.fcw.com/online/news/154230-1.htmlBy Mary MosqueraFCW.comOctober 29, 2008The Internal Revenue Service significantly improved its security evaluations of major computer systems during fiscal 2008 that are required under the Federal Information Security Management Act, according to a recent report [1] from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).The Cybersecurity office of the IRS. Moderniza read more »
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