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Cory Doctorow / 10:42 am Thu, May 17, 2018

The £7 billion Carillion collapse has the UK government talking about breaking up the Big Four accounting firms

Carrillion was the UK government's go-to outsourcing partner, a company with a long and disgraceful history of putting profits before people -- perhaps that's why HM Government was so ready to believe in the company's robust financial health as it amassed £7B in debts and then collapsed, spectacularly, leaving the UK in financial and infrastructural disarray. Read the rest “The £7 billion Carillion collapse has the UK government talking about breaking up the Big Four accounting firms”

Cory Doctorow / 7:30 am Tue, Dec 13, 2016

PWC threatens to sue security firm for disclosing embarrassing, dangerous defects in its software

ESNC, a German security research firm, discovered a critical flaw in PWC's enterprise software, which would allow attackers to hack into PWC customers' systems; when ESNC gave PWC notice of its intent to publish an advisory in 90 days, PWC promptly threatened to sue them if they did. Read the rest “PWC threatens to sue security firm for disclosing embarrassing, dangerous defects in its software”