Hacker News with Generative AI: Auditing

Go Cryptography Security Audit (go.dev)
Google recently contracted the independent security firm Trail of Bits to complete an audit of the core set of packages that are also validated as part of the new native FIPS 140-3 module.

Cryptography, Security, Auditing

58 points by bracewel 4 days ago | 1 comments

Yale faculty call for admin hiring freeze and independent audit (yaledailynews.com)
Over 100 Yale professors are calling for the University administration to freeze new administrative hires and commission an independent faculty-led audit to ensure that the University prioritizes academics.

Academia, Higher Education, Faculty, Administration, Auditing

7 points by txcwg002 28 days ago | 0 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE Is Getting Audited by GAO (wired.com)
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is auditing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Government, Auditing, Cryptocurrency, Elon Musk

36 points by throw0101d 43 days ago | 2 comments

Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco (theregister.com)
Birmingham City Council did not tell its official auditors about the disastrous Oracle implementation for ten months after the suite of applications went live, and appeared to obstruct access to the new system needed to complete their work.

Software, Government, Auditing, Oracle

14 points by aquir 72 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk says he is thinking of auditing the Federal Reserve (theglobeandmail.com)
Billionaire Elon Musk said on Thursday he is thinking of auditing the U.S. Federal Reserve, after calling for greater scrutiny of the central bank in the past.

Elon Musk, Federal Reserve, Finance, Auditing, Central Banking

21 points by graeme 92 days ago | 10 comments

Formance – The Color of Money: Towards a New Data Model for Fintech, Part II (formance.com)
Earlier, we discussed the concept of promises, and how fintechs should see themselves as being in the business of managing warehouses of promises, that is, managing promises between banks and clients on their behalf. But because promises are non-fungible, warehousing will require a new ledger semantics, one that will ultimately make auditing transactions easier and that provides greater protection for customers and other fintechs in the value chain.

Fintech, Data Models, Auditing, Promises, Ledger Semantics

9 points by lifeisstillgood 174 days ago | 6 comments

Lynis – Security auditing and hardening tool, for Unix-based systems (github.com/CISOfy)
Lynis - Security auditing and hardening tool, for UNIX-based systems.

Security, Unix, Auditing, Tools

67 points by Qision 197 days ago | 21 comments

China Fines PwC $62M for Botching Its Work for Evergrande (nytimes.com)

Finance, China, Auditing, Accounting, Real Estate

5 points by redwood 252 days ago | 0 comments

Proton VPN's no-logs policy confirmed by an external audit (protonvpn.com)

Privacy, Security, VPN, Auditing

11 points by HieronymusBosch 309 days ago | 0 comments

Audit finds NYPD spent thousands of police hours on unconfirmed gunshot alerts (comptroller.nyc.gov)

Police, Auditing, Technology, Crime

36 points by loteck 334 days ago | 27 comments

Auditing TikTok (tiktok-audit.com)

Social Media, Auditing, TikTok

51 points by Tomte 349 days ago | 9 comments

NASA Audit Identifies Significant Issues with Orion Heat Shield (payloadspace.com)