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IRS criticized by federal government watchdog agency for lax IT security

Posted March 18, 2012 - 7:37 am

The Internal Revenue Service isn't doing such a great job of protecting its key financial and tax-processing systems, according to the government's watchdog agency, the GAO.
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How to get the IRS' attention: Forge nearly $8 million in tax returns, steal identities

Posted February 10, 2012 - 1:28 pm

A former Internal Revenue Service employee this week got 105 months in prison for pleading guilty to theft of government property and aggravated identity theft in a case where the guy tried to get away with nearly $8 million in fraudulent tax returns.
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Taxing tale: Long-lost ComputerLand founder located on Grand Cayman Island

Posted September 13, 2011 - 3:34 pm

The founder of the first chain of retail computer superstores is located after disappearing for more than two decades and owing more than $100 million in taxes.
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IRS, DOJ use social media sites to track deadbeats, criminal activity

Posted March 17, 2010 - 10:33 am

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained documents showing how law enforcement agencies and the Internal Revenue Service are gathering information from social networking sites for their investigations.
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IRS now wants to repeal cell phone tax

Posted June 16, 2009 - 8:47 pm

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is now recommending that a complicated law that would tax personal usage of business cell phones be repealed, after the agency caused an uproar last week with attempts to simplify the law.
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Fake antivirus peddlers helped by Microsoft, IRS

Posted December 24, 2008 - 9:14 am

Scammers are back two weeks after the FTC shut down two major fake antivirus software sellers.
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Auditor: IRS doesn't check cyberaudit logs

Posted December 16, 2008 - 5:38 pm

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service's IT staff hasn't routinely checked its cybersecurity audit logs, according to a report released this week by the agency's inspector general's office.
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