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Bangladesh Bank website shut for third consecutive day over cybersecurity

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Bangladesh Bank website shut for third consecutive day over cybersecurity
Following a global cybersecurity alert, Bangladesh Bank's website has been shut for the third consecutive day. To ensure full protection, the authorities shut down the website at noon last Thursday (October 22). However, although the website is shut, the daily and normal activities of commercial banks with the central bank are continuing.

Arif Hossain Khan, Executive Director and spokesperson of Bangladesh Bank, said that the central bank's Information Technology Department is working to ensure security. However, no specific timeline has yet been given for reopening the website. Currently, when trying to access the website, only a maintenance-related message is visible.

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Recently, cybersecurity firms Calif and Wiz identified a serious security flaw in the widely used programming language ‘PHP’. Following this, Bangladesh Bank took this preventive measure right after the government issued a cybersecurity warning. It may be noted that in 2016, 10 crore 10 lakh dollars (101 million dollars) of Bangladesh Bank was stolen from the Federal Reserve in New York. After that cyber attack, the then Governor Atiur Rahman resigned.

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