Gov’t procurement website hacked

A third government website has gone down in almost as many weeks and the administration has been reported as saying that it will be seeking assistance from international authorities to identify the suspected cyber attackers.

Checks yesterday revealed that the government procurement website www.eprocure.gov.gy was down and Press and Publicity Officer in the Office of the President Kwame McCoy told this newspaper that the site had been hacked.

This came two days after the Low Carbon Development Strategy website www.lcds.gov.gy was also reportedly hacked. Visitors to that site early Wednesday were greeted with Islamic music while “Saudi Arabia Hackers” and “hacked by