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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 289 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 274 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 125 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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