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The Fiji Football Association has issued a statement regarding a Facebook post by Bula Events Group announcing that Digicel Kulas overseas-based player, Trina Davis, as their brand ambassador. Fiji FA says this is an absolute hoax and misleading the general public using a popular name in football to get tournament mileage and attract sponsors and teams. The association President Rajesh Patel says while Davis fully supports women in sports, she said she was never approached by the Bula Events Group, and neither did she make any comment or commitment.Article continues after advertisement Davis says she had no clue and Bula Events never approached her nor did she make a comment. Bula Events Group has this afternoon publicly apologized to Davis, her family, and anyone associated with her for the post published earlier in regards to a futsal tournament where the trophy was also named after the Fiji Kulas star. According to Bula Events Group, they found out that the social media account and email address they were in contact with were fake and they came to know about it today when Davis’s mother contacted them.  » Read More

RALEIGH, N.C. — WakeMed has alerted patients about a potential breach in data privacy.According to a notification sent out by WakeMed last week, some patients who visited two specific WakeMed websites may have had select data transmitted to Facebook – now Meta – in error.In March 2018, WakeMed placed a pixel, provided by Facebook, on their website and on their MyChart patient portal."Unfortunately, the pixel’s software code may have also transmitted some of the information entered by visitors into the MyChart patient portal and appointment scheduling page back to Facebook," wrote WakeMed in a release on their website.WakeMed says they have not been able to determine whether Facebook actually collected or used any of the information sent from its pixel. As a precaution, WakeMed says they are notifying all individuals who logged into a WakeMed MyChart account or scheduled an appointment on the WakeMed website between March 2018 and May 2022.WakeMed says depending on a user's activity, Facebook may have received data such as: Allergy or medication information COVID vaccine status Upcoming appointments,  » Read More

A Facebook post dating back to 2008 shows Midway Mayor and Democratic candidate for state representative Grayson Vandegrift using sexist language, ...  » Read More

By Alan Truly October 17, 2022 10:09AM In the ongoing barrage of cyberattacks, Facebook users are being targeted by a new version of the Ducktail malware that originally surfaced in July. The first implementation was specifically aimed at Facebook Business accounts, but it has recently become a more widespread danger. The latest version of Ducktail collects any and all Facebook data available on an infected computer. If it happens to be a business account, payment methods could be discovered, putting your money at risk. Furthermore, Facebook Business data might include billing information and cycles, which could be used to help disguise unauthorized purchases. An in-depth account of how Ducktail works was shared by Bleeping Computer. The first version relied on a LinkedIn campaign, with hackers posing as marketing and human resources professionals to deliver PHP malware under the guise of useful information. The latest Ducktail is seeded on file-sharing networks that host cracked software, games, adult videos, and anything of a forbidden nature.  » Read More

ANN ARBOR, Michigan – The 10th-ranked Michigan field hockey team shut out the fifth-ranked University of Iowa field hockey team, 2-0, on Sunday afternoon at Phyllis Ocker Field. Iowa has recorded back-to-back losses for the first time this season dropping the team’s record to 10-5 overall, 3-4 in Big Ten play. The Wolverines took the lead in the 28th minute on Tina D’Anjolell’s unassisted strike and Michigan doubled its lead when Lora Clarke scored on a rebound in the 47th minute. Senior Grace McGuire recorded 10 saves in the contest — the second-most saves she has tallied this season. OF NOTE… – It is McGuire’s second career game with 10+ saves. She had a career-high 11 saves against North Carolina in the second game of the season. – Iowa has not scored since the 53rd minute of the James Madison matchup. – Michigan out-shot Iowa, 21-3, and had a 10-3 advantage in penalty corners. UP NEXT Iowa will return to action Oct.  » Read More

LAWRENCE, Kan. — On Sunday afternoon at Rock Chalk Park, the Texas Tech Red Raiders defeated the Kansas Jayhawks 2-1. Texas Tech’s Ashleigh Williams had a pair of goals to lead Texas Tech. “It’s disappointing,” Head Coach Mark Francis said. “The game was back and forth, and to be fair it could have gone either way. It was disappointing after we scored to let them come back so quickly. That was really frustrating. On the second goal, their kid hit a good shot and Hayven (Harrison) makes a good save, but we didn’t react to it very quickly and their kid got to it first. That ended up being the difference in the game.” Both offenses came out and scored quickly. In the fifth minute, junior midfielder Kate Dreyer sent a ball down the left side of the field for junior forward Shira Elinav. Elinav was able to race down the ball and get behind the defense to finish it off into the right corner of the net to give KU a 1-0 lead. The goal was Elinav’s team-high eighth of the season.  » Read More

Vladimir Putin said he believed the “partial mobilisation” of army reservists would be completed in two weeks. The Russian president said after attending a summit in Kazakhstan on Friday that a total of 222,000 reservists would be called up, down from the 300,000 figure initially circulated after the order last month. The Belarus defence ministry said Russian troops would start arriving in the country “in the next few days” as part of its joint force. The US and Germany are to deliver sophisticated anti-aircraft systems to Kyiv this month to counter attacks using Russian missiles and kamikaze drones, Ukraine’s defence minister said. Oleksiy Reznikov said Ukraine would receive the Iris-II air defence system from Germany this month. A Russian submarine has reportedly been spotted off the French coast and escorted by the French navy. The submarine was spotted sailing on the surface off the Brittany coast at the end of September, the French navy said on its Twitter feed. It said British and Spanish warships had also been involved in monitoring the submarine’s movements.  » Read More

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - The popular TikTok trend called the spicy “one chip challenge” is not necessarily new, but the company behind it, “Paqui,” released a 2022 version of the chip - hotter and spicier than ever. Now, a Valley pediatrician is warning parents after seeing multiple kids from ages 10-18 recently come in for severe stomach pain after trying the challenge.He said the problem is the potency on a small chip, but with companies profiting off kids doing this, experts say it’s up to parents to protect them. “Just the word ‘challenge’ to a teenager is like ‘game on,” said teen mental health expert Katey McPherson.But the popular spicy “one chip challenge” may literally be too hot to handle, now becoming a medical problem. “They come in with something that looks like a stomach flu. Nausea, vomiting for a couple of days,” said Phoenix pediatrician Dr. Gary Kirkilas.Dr. Kirkilas said kids have been coming in with severe belly pain. After asking them questions, many have admitted symptoms came on after trying the new 2022 version of the Paqui “one chip challenge” which the company advertises as a chip “straight from hell” that will “turn your tongue blue as a…

The suspect in the Connecticut ambush that resulted in the deaths of two Bristol police officers was friends on Facebook with one of the victims. Nicholas Brutcher's list of friends on the social media platform includes fallen officer Alex Hamzy, who appeared to go by Alex Yzmah on Facebook. Hamzy, 34, was killed in the line of duty Wednesday night. Bristol Police Chief Brian Gould said in a news conference that Hamzy, who was raised in the city, graduated from Bristol Eastern High School in 2006.RETIRED CONNECTICUT OFFICER CALLS OUT DEMONIZATION OF POLICE AFTER AMBUSH: 'THIS IS THE STATE OF AMERICA' Nicholas Brutcher's Facebook page shows he was Facebook friends with Officer Alex Hamzy, who seemed to go by Alex Yzmah on the platform. (Facebook/Nick Brutcher)According to police, a preliminary investigation said Hamzy, Sgt. Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex Iurato were responding to a 911 call reporting a possible domestic violence incident between Nicholas Brutcher and his brother Nathaniel.  » Read More

For transgender teen Luna Berardi, a freshman at San Dieguito Academy in Encinitas, gender affirming schools provide more than a safe space for expression. They’re a lifeline for LGBTQ+ youth, lowering the threat of suicide for which they’re at higher risk than their peers.But Berardi and other students are questioning whether the San Dieguito Union High School District is committed to providing a safe space after parents and a district trustee commented in a private Facebook group chat characterized as “transphobic” by the district’s student-led Gender Sexuality Alliance.“I hope he gets taken out of school. … I don’t believe that he deserves this big of a title,” Berardi said of the trustee.Now, several of the GSA students and their allies are demanding that the district take steps to protect students by adopting LGBTQ+-affirming policies, providing cultural awareness training for school communities and improving mental health services for students. The student group will formally present their resolution to the board on Thursday.Some students and parents have also called on Trustee Michael Allman to resign from office after his participation in the chat,  » Read More