Stories about: National Audit Office

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    MoD fighting cost overruns with in-house project management 19/10/2010 01:34:00

    The Ministry of Defence overspent by £3.3 billion last year, and turned to project management software to help control its costs.
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    Unisys to Help NSW Police Force Use Digital Imagery as New Weapon in Law Enforcement and Crime Prevention 18/06/2009 13:29:00

    Secure digital imagery management system to help law enforcement officers more efficiently access and store images and video to assist investigations.
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    Telstra T3 sale's hotel hot water 25/06/2008 14:02:44

    The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) this week released its audit on the government's third sale of Telstra shares, T3, concluding that the sale represented effective and efficient use of public money despite lavish hotel bills for a roadshow promoting the sale, inflated legal and communications adviser costs and selling commissions of over $204 million.
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    The 2007 security hall of shame 27/12/2007 07:47:46

    How bad was 2007 for breaches, vulnerabilities and similar mayhem? On the bright side, it was better than 2008 is forecast to be. With more of every sort of meltdown predicted -- more criminalization of the hacker community, more Web-application attacks, more phishing, more spamming, more zero-day attacks and more virtualization-related threats -- we're happy to tell you that you are likely to look back on 2007 as the peaceful old days.
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    Blackberry rollout stalled over work/life balance debate 13/12/2007 13:18:40

    A federal government department stalled the distribution of a new fleet of BlackBerries following fears the devices would have a negative impact on the work/life balance of staff.
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    UK data protection minister did not know about breach 28/11/2007 06:21:18

    The UK government's data protection minister did not know about the huge data breach at HM Revenue and Customs until he heard the chancellor's statement in the Commons on November 20, he has admitted.
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    UK data breach leads to review of other databases 27/11/2007 06:33:02

    The schools secretary, Ed Balls, has ordered an independent assessment of security for the ContactPoint database that is set to hold the details of every child from birth.
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    E-mails confirm HMRC mistake was attempt to save money 24/11/2007 10:29:06

    E-mails released by the National Audit Office have confirmed that officials at HM Revenue and Customs did not want to remove sensitive information from child benefit data sent to the auditors because this would cost extra.
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    ICO pushes to criminalize data leaks 24/11/2007 10:20:43

    Criminal charges for data security breaches like that at HM Revenue and Customs could be brought against both organizations and individuals, if new laws proposed by the data protection watchdog are introduced.
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    Chancellor faces up to UK's worst data breach 21/11/2007 06:30:51

    Chancellor Alistair Darling has blamed a breach of internal procedures at HM Revenue and Customs for the loss of 25 million child benefit records.
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    Experts: Britain failing in computer science 20/11/2006 13:49:18

    Britain is losing out in computer science, endangering the British economy in the long term, the British Computer Society (BCS) has warned.
 
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