IRS finds unauthorized Web servers connected to its networks

[Sassy]

IRS finds unauthorized Web servers connected to its networks
By Jill R. Aitoro, jaitoro@govexec.com   09/04/08

The Internal Revenue Service found more than 1,000 unauthorized Web servers connected to its networks, leaving the agency's systems open to hackers, according to a report released on Thursday by the IRS inspector general.

Comment on this article in The Forum.In September 2007, the IRS Computer Security Incident Response Center scanned the agency's Web servers and identified 2,093 that had at least one security vulnerability. When the center matched those servers to the IRS database of registered Web sites and servers, an inventory of systems that the agency uses to perform security maintenance and apply patches, it found 1,811, or 87 percent, were not listed in the database.

Of the unregistered servers, the IRS identified 661 that were used for legitimate agency business, leaving 1,150 servers being used for potentially unauthorized activity, according to the report.

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20080904_3324.php

[glenn kangiser]

Just a guess but they probably just lost the records.

[ScottA]

I wonder what sites are hosted on those bootleg servers.

[desdawg]

Maybe we can link up so I can sign up for my REFUND. 

[Sassy]

Maybe we can link up so I can sign up for my REFUND. 

Sounds like a plan to me!