Comments on: Phishers use IRS tax refund as bait

Cybercriminals take advantage of programming error on a federal Web site to pose as IRS and collect sensitive data.

[seamonkey420]

yea, figures...

is it me or is it a bit sad when my own personal website has more security and lockdown than a US government site? and these people are dictating the laws towards new technologies yet have no clue on how to install windows xp prof?

man, just pathetic; maybe we should just stop this war and concentrate on our Country, on our own people (ie Katrina survivors? invent new power sources?). Maybe we shouldn't just sit back while our corrupt lawmakers just further fatten their own pockets while the remaining 90% of the population struggles more and more each day..

but come on US Govt, fire your current IT and snatch up a few good hackers and fix that redirect!

just my $.02

[Techie2010]

Ditto

I feel for ya, it's scary to think that my computer has better security than most goverment systems. :/

[spfanstiel]

How long does it take?

Really, how long does it take to "fix" this redirect? You do a search of all legitimate governemnt sites using this redirect tool, assess the desired destination URLs that may require this resource, then you lock it down to these URLs, and no more. Why the delay? The fact that the government is "aware" of the problem is apparently worthless, since the redirect is still up and running. And now that c|net has published it -- the entire phishing community knows about it as well.

[smbaker01]

Nice lecture

Your own redirect links do exactly the same thing.
http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http://www.google.com/
or whatever.

[n3td3v]

Russ Cooper

Is this guy still alive? Thought Cybertrust was a waste of time since law infrocement dont contact them for intelligence on cyber investigations.

[lolasdeer]

no contact

Hey N3td3v,

Could you tell us more about this governmental negation of Cybertrust?

Thanks,

lolasdeer