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IRS Systems Security: Tax Processing Operations and Data Still at Risk Due to Serious Weaknesses

T-AIMD-97-76 Published: Apr 10, 1997. Publicly Released: Apr 10, 1997.
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GAO discussed the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) computer security weaknesses. GAO stated that neither this testimony or the report just released quantifies the total number of weaknesses that GAO found or the number of weaknesses found in each of the eight functional categories of security that GAO reviewed, or details the most serious weaknesses that GAO found.

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