In the face of the IRS losing billions of your tax dollars every year, they instituted a plan last year to actually verify the identity of people who are logging on the the IRS’s digital websites. What a novel concept. Would you do business with a bank that would let anyone walk in, say that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Law Firm Goodwin Procter Hacked Goodwin Procter managing parnter Mark Bettencourt confirmed that some of their clients’ data was compromised. But not to worry; it only affected a small percentage of their clients. One more time, we have a “supply chain attack”. While the vendor was unnamed, I suspect it was Accellion. They suffered a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many Cyberspace Solarium Commission Recommendations Likely to Become Law The Cyberspace Solarium Commission was a blue ribbon commission that made recommendations to Congress earlier this year on improving government cybersecurity. It appears that many of their recommendations are being added to the National Defense Authorization Act, which is “must pass” bill to fund the military. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For anyone who has filled out the federal student financial aid form called FAFSA, they know it is a pretty daunting task. Well now it has become a bit more daunting. Kind of like the problem the IRS had a few years ago with the tax transcript retrieval tool where hackers used the tool to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The AP is reporting that the IRS didn’t really know how many taxpayers had their information stolen by hackers who used the Get Transcript web site. Originally, the IRS said that hackers tried to get information for about 200,000 taxpayers and were successful in getting information for 100,000 of them. Originally, they said the hack […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The NY Times is reporting that the IRS finally admitted that their tax transcript service is great for identity thieves and shut it down. In 2013, thieves used it and other techniques to get over $5 billion in bogus tax refunds – costing the U.S. government (AKA you and me) a lot of money and […]
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