Dear Editor,
The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission, (GLSC), has over the past few weeks witnessed and received complaints of an increased number of cyber-attacks on its systems. As a result, the commission is taking steps to enhance its cyber defences.
Editor, although we maintain controls to help protect our networks and computers from cyber threats, we rely heavily on our clients to be an important and critical line of defence by not falling prey to this apparent fraud geared to trick citizens.
The Commission remains committed to serving the people of Guyana through proper, legitimate channels, and therefore, rejects in the strongest possible terms this attempt by outside, so far, unknown sources, to mingle in the internal affairs of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission.
We implore our clients and stakeholders to be on the lookout for strange emails coming from the Commission, the CEO’s personal email as well as the personal emails of staffers from the Commission. Should you receive any email from the Commission or staff members from the Commission and want to confirm its legitimacy, please contact the Public Relations Officer, by phone; 226-6490 ext 1010 or by email rjames@glsc.gov.gy.
Additionally, we are urging our clients and stakeholders not to click on links or attachments from senders that you do not recognize or are suspicious in content, structure or tone. Be especially wary of .rar or other compressed or executable file types (e.g. .exe, .zip).
Yours faithfully,
Royden James
Public Relations &
Communications Officer, GLSC
