In the latest The Security Podcasts episode, Tom Thimot, CEO of authID.ai, offers a unique perspective on the concerns raised around ID.me’s technology, where they went wrong with the IRS, and the drawbacks of facial recognition technology.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced the implementation of mandatory facial recognition in order to access some government services. This may increase cybersecurity and data privacy risks.
Tigran Gambaryan and Matthew Price, two former special agents at the Internal Revenue Service, join the audit and investigations team at the cryptocurrency firm Binance and work to ensure cybersecurity in crypto transactions.
The Internal Revenue Service recently warned of an ongoing IRS-impersonation scam that appears to primarily target educational institutions, including students and staff who have ".edu" email addresses.
The Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and tax industry warned tax professionals of a new scam email that impersonates the IRS and attempts to steal Electronic Filing Identification Numbers (EFINs).
According to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government sent approximately 1.1 million stimulus payments (a total of $1.4 billion) to deceased people.
In light of the reports of theft of COVID-19 stimulus checks (which one headline called “pure hell”), it’s instructive to look back at recent breaches of IRS systems and processes.