One of the advertisements for online gambling on the Goa government’s Department of Women and Child Development website on Wednesday.
PANAJI
Advertisements luring you to try your luck at online gambling would most likely stare at your face if you happened to browse through the Goa government’s Department of Women and Child Development website on Wednesday.
The advertisement was listed under the link for “schemes” meant for the welfare of women and children, as the screenshot published alongside indicates.
One such ad suggests choosing online gambling sites which accept payments through ‘Mastercard’ credit cards for safety reasons. Another prompts you to play free “Slot Machine Online” without downloading or installing the app and has an ‘overview’ on playing free slot machine online.
The Goan has reported on multiple occasions in the past that official websites of Goa government departments are not secured and prone to cyber hacking.
In the most recent reportage of the issue, it was reported that more than 70 per-cent of government websites including that of educational institutions like Goa University, are “not secure” with the IT department reporting that of the 62 government websites, 45 departments have not renewed the Security Audit of their website and another 17 had the renewal process incomplete.
