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IRS Employees Fall For Hackers

Posted by samzenpus on from the this-mail-may-come-as-a-shock-to-you dept.

linuxwrangler writes "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 represents a substantial reduction from the 71% who fell for the ruse in 2001."

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  1. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by LewsTherinKinslayer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Its obligatory:

    "Oh boo yourself."

    PS: FP.

  2. Re:fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sgarringer@gmail.com

    Well, now I have a new e-mail to use as a spamhole for registration-only sites.

  3. Re:fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, now I have a new e-mail to use as a spamhole for registration-only sites.

    I know the first thing I would do if I found out the email address of someone I really disliked... post it on slashdot.

  4. Re:Fool me once... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't you mean Taxachusetts?

  5. FP? by PornMaster · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is FP a new acronym for Ninth Post, or were you just reminding us all that you use FrontPage?

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  6. Damn those hax0rs!?!?!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://tinyurl.com/48ok3 The Schrodinger equation plays the role of Newton's laws and conservation of energy in classical mechanics - i.e., it predicts the future behavior of a dynamic system. It is a wave equation in terms of the wavefunction which predicts analytically and precisely the probability of events or outcome. The detailed outcome is not strictly determined, but given a large number of events, the Schrodinger equation will predict the distribution of results.

  7. Re:public passwords by lachlan76 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No offence, but you don't seem to have gotten the hang of bash ;)

    su && startx will only start X when you have dropped your new priv set.