Kathmandu. Government websites of Nepal, which were closed since last Thursday due to the security weakness of the programming language called ‘PHP’, which is used to create websites, have started to open.
Now most of the government websites including Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Customs Department, Transport Office, Malpot, National Bank have started to open.
The cyber security agencies have asked the concerned organizations to immediately implement the PHP security update and if they are unable to do so, the websites should be temporarily closed. Accordingly, the government websites of Nepal were also not open.
According to the Software Development and Operation Center of the Government of Nepal, more than 1000 government websites and online services have resumed normal operations after the completion of security patches and testing. The staff of the center have been deployed to bring the remaining services into operation soon. According to the center, the employees worked continuously for this work even during Dashain holidays.