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Social Engineering in the Internal Revenue Service

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

[From slashdot (dated 03/16/2005):]

Treasury department auditors recently posed as network technicians and attempted to get IRS employees to reveal their usernames and passwords and/or change the password to one suggested by the “technician”. The result: over one-third shared their passwords. If there is any good news in the story it is that the 35% figure […]