Tag: ACIC

PJCIS calls for changes to new hacking powers

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The national security committee has called for a series of changes to the federal government’s plan to hand sweeping new hacking powers to the AFP before it is passed...

Govt establishes ransomware taskforce

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has ordered its intelligence forces to go on the offensive against ransomware gangs, with a new cross-agency taskforce established and a near-tripling of the AFP officers...

AFP’s new hacking powers referred to committee

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government will refer legislation handing sweeping hacking powers to the AFP to the Parliamentary intelligence and security committee amid concerns the extraordinary new powers would lead to “poisoned...

NEC Australia loses half its leadership

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The departure of NEC Australia general manager Mike Barber means half of the tech company’s leadership team has left in the last year and a half, in the wake...

ANAO shreds NEC biometric project

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The national crime intelligence commission’s management of its doomed biometrics project was “deficient in almost every significant respect” and no milestones were met despite more than $34 million being...

$26m lost on biometric project 

Posted on   |  by James Riley
At least $26 million in taxpayer funds was lost on the national crime intelligence commission’s doomed biometrics project before it was canned earlier this year. In June the ACIC...

Report: ‘Litany of failures’

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There has been a “litany of failures largely unprecedented in scale” in the federal government’s digital transformation efforts, with a need for major structural changes and long-term whole-of-government approaches,...

$90m biometrics project scrapped

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A $90 million government biometrics project run by NEC Australia has been scrapped following continual delays, an overblown budget and the prospects of an audit. NEC Australia was awarded...

NEC identity gig faces ANAO audit

Posted on   |  by James Riley
An investigation has been launched into the suspended biometrics project that NEC Australia was doing for the Australian Crime Intelligence Commission. The audit of the Australian Crime Intelligence Commission’s...