No security breaches, but ‘weaknesses’ still need to be explained

Justice Minister Alan Shatter’s statement yesterday pointed to three areas within GSOC that had been identified as potential weak points or “vulnerabilities” in their electronic security architecture.

It now emerges these vulnerabilities were found as a result of a “routine sweep”, therefore indicating the English firm was hired to spring clean the GSOC premises, as opposed to being called in on suspicion that bugging was in operation.

Based on this report, GSOC say three weaknesses were found;