Modi Govt's Reliance on Consultants: Nearly 1,500 in 44 Departments Are Annually Paid Rs 302 Crore
This, however, does not include 1,037 Young Professionals, 539 independent consultants, 354 domain experts, 1,481 retired government officers, and 20,376 other low-paid staff hired on contract by 76 departments employed either directly or through outsourcing agencies.
The finance department has entered into a $32,000 contract with an external consultant to provide advice on how it should engage other external consultants who also provide advice to government, in a move that has been slammed as a “laughable scenario”....
Consulting firm #PwC has been swept up in a global cybersecurity breach that threatens to embroil more Australian companies after Russian-linked cybercriminals breached widely used file-sharing software.
A bunch of people have alerted me to a vulnerability in #MoveIT, a secure file transfer app used heavily in the UK.
I did some digging and it looks like it’s a zero day under active exploitation. Not 100% on threat actor yet but it may be one of the ransomware/extortion groups.
Really serious, impacted orgs should shut down the server. Thread follows. #threatintel
The emails at the heart of the scandal reveal that European countries including the UK and Ireland, as well as the United States and Singapore have been affected because senior PwC staff collaborated to devise tax schemes based on the breach of confidentiality and won new clients and business as a result
A for-profit company is going to act in the way that makes them money. Don't be surprised when that often means that they'll act unethically, especially when it comes to government contracts.
Auditors are capitalism's lubricants, who keep the gears of finance capital smoothly a-whirl, allowing investors to move their money in and out of companies without having to go pore over their books and walk through their facilities. Without auditors, the gears of capitalism would grind themselves to dust:
Unfortunately for capitalism, auditing is irredeemably broken. The Big Four auditors (#PWC, #EY, #Deloitte and #KPMG) have merged to monopoly, becoming #TooBigToFail and #TooBigToJail. These four gigantic firms have spun up fantastically lucrative "consulting" divisions that advise companies on how to cheat on their audits and attain incredible (paper) gains.
Finance department hires consultant to advise on hiring consultants in move compared to ABC’s Utopia (www.theguardian.com)
The finance department has entered into a $32,000 contract with an external consultant to provide advice on how it should engage other external consultants who also provide advice to government, in a move that has been slammed as a “laughable scenario”....