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Two IRS systems Have Huge Security Flaws

Taxpayer data could be at risk, according to the inspector general

By Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld

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He added that the agency's apparent failure to do any application scans is especially noteworthy, because they can help find bugs that may have been overlooked in the design and development stage.

The report said that the IRS has accepted all four of the recommendations made by the IG in the wake of the audit. For instance, the agency's Business Modernization Office and Customer Service Executive Steering Committee will review all of the security issues and ensure that they have been addressed before each new phase of the projects are approved. The IRS also agreed to have its associate CIO for cybersecurity list all of the needed controls that have yet to be implemented and make sure they're corrected within agreed-upon time frames.

This is just the latest example of the IRS being criticized for IT security shortcomings. Just last week, a separate report by the IG detailed weaknesses in several other IRS systems.

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