Introduction: The advancement of technology and the luxuries that it brings to us is very evident. The hype to digitize information so that clients can have a faster access to them. “A way of organizing public management in order to increase efficiency, transparency, accessibility and responsiveness to citizens, through the intensive and strategic use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the inner management of the public sector (intra and inter governmental relations) as well as in its daily relations with citizens and users of public services.” Is the definition given for e- commerce services provided by governmental agencies.” (Abstracted Dr. Dileepa de Silva , June 21st 2004 E-government)
There pose certain issues and risks that evolve with the use of such technologies there are endless possibilities in which they can be encountered some of the issues are given below.
• Security
• Auditability
• Scalability
• Efficiency
• Reliability
• Integration
• Acceptability
• Cost
• Anonymity

Most sites use the user name password way of authenticating the process of identifying people. In this case scenario in which the IRS has to deal with a number of people, the use of ones social security number and a PIN number to verify the whole process. There are number of other process that can be used to authenticate this process. Some of these methods are given below.
1. “Trust authentication
2. Password authentication
3. Kerberos authentication
4. Ident-based authentication
5. PAM Authentication”
(Abstracted, Authentication methods 2004)

There are many risks involved for the webmasters who control the websites face a number of difficulties and risks. Some of the risks that are posed to people who are in such position are the DoS attacks. DoS means Denial of Service attacks, the hacker, manipulates the website by making sure that everything looks good on the server end but the client faces the problems of website being inactive or disabled. Other problems that are faced are entire websites being hacked and personal information is viewed by unauthorized people.

The answer to the above problems are very complex as technology grows so will the mind of hackers. One positive step would be to stop the use of all Microsoft ® as the number of hacking static’s show that a number of hacking that is done globally most Microsoft based products are being the center of all attacks. Switching to more securer based systems would prove to be very fruitful. Sun Solaris, Linux are just a few of the most reliable software’s around. The reason that Microsoft ® applications are not safe is due to the fact that their products are very easy too understand both on the client as well as on the server based side. Linux ® & Sun Solaris ® both are quite reliable and you don’t find many people using them everyday. Hackers in these applications are rare and most probably are already hired by these companies to help them further strengthen their applications.