Hacker News with Generative AI: Auditing

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 23 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 42 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 125 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 148 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 203 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 260 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 284 days ago | 27 comments

Auditing TikTok (tiktok-audit.com)

Social Media, Auditing, TikTok

51 points by Tomte 299 days ago | 9 comments

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