Taxpayer beware The US Internal Revenue Service is putting tax payers at risk by operating thousands of web servers that contain security vulnerabilities or have not received proper authorization, a new report has concluded.… ...full story at the register (uk)
from the register (uk) on Fri, Sep 05 2008
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