60% of IRS Employees Fail Security Test

Your tax dollars at work: Some 60% of IRS employees tested were easily socially engineered into giving up information that could compromise the privacy and security of EVERY U.S. TAXPAYER. The test involved 102 people who were called on the telephone and asked to give up their username and change their password to one specified by the caller. Only one of the 102 employees tried to validate the legitimacy of the call.