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Wireless Vulnerabilities Found at IRS Offices

Filed in archive Wi-Fi by jeff goldman on April 18, 2007

Wireless Vulnerabilities Found at IRS Offices

Your taxes are filed, you've paid what you owe, you're feeling poorer than you did before the 17th -- but at least your data is secure, right?


Wrong.


According to the AP, a recent assessment of IRS security policies found that its offices nationwide that use wireless technology are still vulnerable to hackers.


"Despite efforts to improve wireless security the past four years, the Inspector General's assessment of 20 buildings in 10 cities discovered four separate locations at which hackers could have easily gained access to IRS computers using wireless technology," the article states.


While there's no evidence that an attack has occurred, Inspector General Michael phillipslinks admits that "anyone with a wireless detection tool could pick up the wireless signal and gain access to the computer," and "a hacker conceivably could gain access to the IRS network."


More here from USA Today ... here from GovExec.com ... and GovExec has the full report as a PDF here.








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