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Ryan wants IRS to immediately adopt security recommendations

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Mar

2016

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) wants the Internal Revenue Service to immediately start working to adopt a watchdog’s recommendations to improve the security of taxpayer information. The Government Accountability Office issued a report earlier this week that recommended 43 actions the IRS can take to fix weaknesses in security controls. Congressional Republicans “will continue to exercise […]

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IRS issues warning to HR professionals over phishing scam

03

Mar

2016

Less than a month after it “renewed a consumer alert” for phishing scams, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the US has delivered another warning aimed this time at payroll and human resources professionals. It said that it has identified an “emerging phishing email scheme” that claims to be from business executives. The fraudsters behind the […]

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IRS raises number of Get Transcript app breach victims yet again

01

Mar

2016

Remember when back in May 2015 the IRS took offline its Get Transcript app because it was misused by cyber-criminals to access sensitive personal information of more than 100,000 taxpayers? Well, the final number is much, much higher. In a statement released on Friday, the Internal Revenue Service said that “the Treasury Inspector General for […]

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