Australian census website cracks after ‘malicious’ attack by hackers(theconversation.com) |
Australian census website cracks after ‘malicious’ attack by hackers(theconversation.com) |
ABS shouldn't have outsourced the entire project to IBM, they could have just developed the application in-house and deployed it to an autoscaling CE instance group on Google Cloud, they probably would have saved $7-8 million paid to IBM while also avoiding this catastrophic failure.
Also, from what I can see, gov't departments normally outsource for projects and only ever retain staff for maintenance activities (i.e. keep the lights running). It's probably due to the way budgeting is done.