Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 228: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious computer security breaches committed against his Department's computer systems. [1726/08]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Unauthorised traffic to all the Department's public-facing systems is logged and monitored. A page of one of the Department's websites was overwritten in November 2007. The company that manages the site fixed the underlying vulnerability in their software, and access to this page was completely restored after less than 24 hours.