Stories about: National Audit Office

Unisys announced today its Australian subsidiary has signed a $240 million contract with the Australian Department of Defence.

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.

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.

The government has defended security measures for its £5.6 billion ID cards scheme in the wake of the data loss crisis at HM Revenue and Customs.

HMRC's loss of 28 million records is evidence that the government can not be trusted with biometric information, and the UK national ID scheme is untenable, according to FBI fraud expert and world renowned ex-con artist Frank Abagnale.

With some 48,000 contracts, worth an estimated $14.8 billion, entered into by federal government departments annually, security procedures for dealing with contractors still require improvement, according to the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO).

A security expert has cracked one of the U.K.'s new biometric passports, which the British government hopes will cut down on cross-border crime and illegal immigration.

Problems with agency IT security are again under the spotlight, with reports from both Australia and the US highlighting widespread problems with compliance.

Special Minister of State Gary Nairn has expressed disappointment at the findings of a report into Internet security by Australia's National Audit Office (ANOA).

Six Australian government agencies have come under fire from the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) for having lax security.

Even though the Australian government may have an effective IT security framework, a recent report shows that certain government agencies are not living up to it, highlighting a great concern.