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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Will Howard passed for two touchdowns and rushed for another, TreVeyon Henderson ran for a score and No. 2 Ohio State beat previously undefeated No. 5 Indiana 38-15 on Saturday. All Ohio State (10-1, 7-1 Big Ten, CFP No. 2) has to do now is beat Michigan at home next Saturday and it will earn a return to the Big Ten championship game for the first time since 2020 and get a rematch with No. 1 Oregon. The Ducks beat Ohio State 32-31 in a wild one back on Oct. 12. The Hoosiers (10-1, 7-1, No. 5 CFP) had their best chance to beat the Buckeyes for the first time since 1988 but were hurt by special teams mistakes and disrupted by an Ohio State defence that sacked Canadian quarterback Kurtis Rourke five times. “In life, all good things come to an end,” Indiana coach Curt Cignetti said. Late in the first half, Indiana punter James Evans fumbled a snap and was buried at his own 7-yardline with the Buckeyes taking over. That turned quickly into a 4-yard TD run by Henderson that gave the Buckeyes a 14-7 lead. Early in the second half, Caleb Downs fielded an Evans punt at the Ohio State 21, raced down the right sideline, cut to the middle and outran the coverage for a TD that put the Buckeyes up 21-7. It was the first time a Buckeye returned a punt for a touchdown since 2014. Howard finished 22 for 26 for 201 yards. Emeka Egbuka had seven catches for 80 yards and a TD. “Our guys just played with a chip today, and that’s the way you got to play the game of football,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said. Indiana scored on its first possession of the game and its last, both short runs by Ty Son Lawson, who paced the Hoosiers with 79 rushing yards. Rourke, a 24-year-old from Oakville, Ont., is the brother of BC Lions QB Nathan Rourke. He was 8 for 18 for 68 yards. “We had communication errors, pass (protection), every time we dropped back to pass, something bad happened," Cignetti said. Indiana's 151 total yards was its lowest of the season. And it was the most points surrendered by the Hoosier's defence. The takeaway Indiana: Its special season was blemished by the Buckeyes, who beat the Hoosiers for the 30th straight time. Indiana was eyeing its first conference crown since sharing one with two other teams in 1967. That won't happen now. “Ohio State deserved to win,” Cignetti said. “They had those (third quarter scores), and we just couldn’t respond.” Ohio State: Didn't waste the opportunities presented by the Hoosiers when they got sloppy. The Buckeyes led 14-7 at the break and took control in the second half. An offensive line patched together because of multiple injuries performed surprisingly well. “We know what was at stake," Day said. “We don't win this game, and we have no chance to go to Indianapolis and play in the Big Ten championship. And that's real. We've had that approach for the last few weeks now, more than that.” Poll implications Some voters were obviously unsure of Indiana because it hadn't played a nationally ranked team before Ohio State. After this one, the Hoosiers will drop. All about Will Howard made history by completing 80% of his passes for the sixth time this season. No other Ohio State quarterback has done that. He completed his first 14 passes in a row and finished with a 85% completion rate. “I think Buckeye nation is now seeing, after 11 games, that this guy is a winner, he's tough, he cares about his teammates, he's a leader,” Day said. Up next Indiana hosts Purdue in the regular-season finale next Saturday. Ohio State hosts rival Michigan on Saturday. ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football Mitch Stacy, The Associated Press

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The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) has warned the public of financial fraud being carried out targeting social media platform, WhatsApp. As the latest development of this alarming trend, WhatsApp accounts of nearly 10 Sri Lankan journalists were compromised during the past few days, particularly of those who work in the English media using sophisticated methods to gain unauthorised access to their user accounts. In all recent incidents, the users have reported receiving unexpected WhatsApp verification codes and scammers contacting users, posing as friends or acquaintances, to request the code, which, once shared, grants hackers control over the account. This enables them to read and send messages, access contacts, and even make calls. According to forensic cybercrime experts, hackers use a two-step approach: “First, they compromise the user’s WhatsApp account through the verification code, and then target the user’s contacts with requests for financial assistance. Victims have reported sending money – Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 100,000, believing they were aiding a friend in a dire need.” Be cautious always Cybercrime experts ask users to “always be cautious” when a WhatsApp message requests a verification code. They said any OTP or a code received should never be shared. Victims are advised to alert their contacts via social media if their accounts are hacked, helping prevent further scams. With the increasing prevalence of this scam, the SLCERT and relevant authorities are encouraging users to enable two-step verification on their accounts and to remain vigilant when receiving any messages involving verification codes. When such an untoward incident of compromising a WhatsApp account occurs, the WhatsApp account user has to face a great deal of inconvenience expending much time to retrieve the account. When a user is subjected to such WhatsApp account hack, the only option available for him is to lodge a complaint with the Computer Crime Investigation Division (CCID) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) or complain to the SLCERT seeking technical advice on how to overcome such issues and regain the control of the WhatsApp account. Several journalists who became victims of hacking their WhatsApp accounts over the past couple of weeks said that the Police response to their complaints was often lethargic and that there should be a mechanism in place to immediately trace the culprits who resort to such cybercrimes. Otherwise, the hackers do the maximum possible damage to the victims and continue their financial scams after they take control over a WhatsApp account. Those who are not familiar with such financial scams might transfer money to those bank accounts. The police can conduct investigations to ascertain those bank account details shared by the hackers. According to the accepted procedure, the banks and finance companies cannot disclose the details of their account holders to a third party. Even if the police want to investigate such accounts, they will have to get a court order. Pretext of financial distress A senior journalist of a leading weekend English newspaper, who became a victim to a scam a couple of days ago, said that he had received a WhatsApp call from a known contact, asking him to join a zoom meeting mentioning a code number. When the journalist had declined to join the zoom meeting, the hacker had asked him to repeat the code number displaced in his WhatsApp call, following which the journalist’s WhatsApp account was immediately hacked. Once the WhatsApp account is compromised, scammers use it to send messages to the user’s contacts, requesting money under the pretext of financial distress. Some of those contacts, who are not familiar with such cybercrime frauds, immediately call or respond to such fake WhatsApp messages hoping that it’s a genuine case. A former News Editor of a leading weekly English newspaper who had also faced a similar issue a recently told the Sunday Observer that he had lodged a complaint with the CCID, but he hasn’t received any feedback so far. The senior journalist said the hackers had also shared WhatsApp messages among some of his schoolmates in foreign countries too. “Then as advised by my friends, I immediately changed my mobile number for a brief period. Several other journalists who also became victims had also followed the same guidelines, and said they are also waiting for feedback from the CCID. When looking at the real-life examples of WhatsApp hacks in Sri Lanka, a retired officer had fallen victim to a similar scam, where the hackers had used his account to defraud his friends and family. A Colombo based businessman had also lost significant sums of money after his account was compromised, with scammers sending messages to his contacts requesting financial assistance. A money swindling scheme had also taken place recently after SJB Colombo District Parliamentarian Mujibur Rahuman posted on Facebook to warn his contacts against the hackers impersonating him on WhatsApp. Hackers who accessed the MP’s WhatsApp account had sent messages to his contacts requesting money. After that, many people had responded to the messages with fund transfers to the account details mentioned. Police Spokesman DIG Nihal Thalduwa said when a complaint is made on the hacking of Facebook or WhatsApp, the CCID will take action regarding that. However, he said there is no significant increase in cybercrimes in Sri Lanka over the past couple weeks. The incidents pertaining to hacking Facebook and WhatsApp are not a recent development that took place in Sri Lanka. These incidents had taken place for a long time and we have also educated the social media users about these hackings and other cybercrime related incidents. Recent developments When social media develops, hacking and other scams using social media and the internet is also developed. Therefore, the hacking of WhatsApp and Facebook is reported not only in Sri Lanka but also worldwide. However, most of those who use social media have an understanding of how these recent developments take place. CCID Deputy Director SSP Darshika Ranasinghe said anybody who became a victim of such cybercrimes can either present a written complaint or send an email to the CCID. The CCID will take action regarding complaints made on any such hacking incidents. SLCERT Senior Information Security Engineer Charuka Damunupola told the Sunday Observer that during the past three months, they had received nearly 74 complaints on hacking of WhatsApp accounts. In most of these cases the user should try to re-register his number with WhatsApp. However, if the user is getting an error message saying that you should try in eight or 24 hours because of the scam mechanism placed in WhatsApp, the user should uninstall the WhatsApp app and try to install it again using the same procedure. That is one option that they could try in such a case. We have had a few cases where users got their access back by reinstalling the app. There is another option similar to some sort of hacking using a WhatsApp business account. The user can download the WhatsApp business account and try to register the number into a WhatsApp business account and then he will get a SMS and enter it and register it to the WhatsApp business account and then the ordinary WhatsApp account will lose its access. Normally, those are the two simple things the user can do if their WhatsApp accounts got compromised. He said during the past few weeks, they witnessed a surge in this particular WhatsApp account hack. The most important thing is if someone’s WhatsApp account is hacked, that account holder’s contacts can also get these messages and the hackers will go through their contacts and see what groups they are in by creating communities. That is why it’s like going in circles among journalists, politicians and Government officials. The hacker will only need to compromise one account. If you take one mobile phone, you will have hundreds of contacts. There is a possibility that anyone can be fooled through such scams and they will disclose their verification code or they will send money without thinking twice. This scam is widely spreading within these few weeks. WhatsApp accounts of several journalists from both print and electronic media had been compromised during the past couple of days. Some fake WhatsApp calls are circulated by the hackers on the pretext that they are from a Government office asking the users to join a Zoom meeting. Most of the journalists could think that it is an important discussion and click the link to join it. A few people had complained to SLCERT that they had noticed that on certain occasions the call originated from their own contact. Damunupola said sometimes, it can come from an unknown number and it can be an overseas number as well. The hackers may give missed calls or they will call and ask you to enter some numbers. We haven’t seen those cases very much. Normally, what happens in that scenario is they will forward your call to their numbers. Through that they will re-register the number by a WhatsApp phone call verification and anyway it will verify on their phone because all the calls are going to that number. They scam a huge number of people and they don’t send these WhatsApp messages singly. They just want at least one person to click the message and fooled and that is enough for them. They send WhatsApp messages on a smart scale. At the initial stage, it was mainly targeted at the Muslim community as they do some online prayers. Then hackers sent them fake WhatsApp messages or calls asking them to join a religious or prayer discussion. If you look at the messages, the greetings mainly say As-Salaam-Alaikum and also added some Muslim words in the text. After that they delete that message, and now they are sending the message in flawless English. He said either way, the WhatsApp call comes from an unknown number or your own contact, and it is impossible to trace the WhatsApp anyway. The only possible evidence is that the Police can investigate the accounts that the hackers ask to deposit money. They send some account holders name and account number to deposit that money. The bank and finance companies have the details of these account holders. But they don’t disclose it to a third party. Even if we make a request, they will ask for a court order and that is the normal procedure for any bank. Floating accounts We have also identified several such bank account details belong to two or three banks sent by the hackers to the WhatsApp users. However, the Police have to get a court order to investigate these accounts but most of these accounts are actually floating accounts. This is the untold story of these accounts because the scammers don’t directly go to a bank to prove their identity so that they have these floating accounts or hijacked accounts to do such scams. He said these account holders have no idea what is happening to their accounts. Sometimes, most of these floating accounts belong to the people who had passed away. If the police try to find the account holder, there is no such person or that he had passed away. However, there are a few ways to withdraw the money deposited in those floating accounts. Even though the Police have the name of the account holder, they can’t do much as there is no such person. The only thing that the Police can do is to default the account. At a certain point, scammers have to get that money into their hands. They use a proxy such as a drug addict or beggar to withdraw the money from a nearby ATM machine and just give them some money for it. Therefore, the scammer won’t be in the picture when the withdrawal takes place. These are some of the techniques used by the scammers. However, some of these accounts can be the real person’s accounts. At times, these scammers recruit university students saying that they have to do an online job. They tell the students that they will get money into their accounts and then they will have to buy online gift cards and send them to an email address. This is the untraceable part of this scam and the person who has got involved in it has no idea whatsoever about as he thinks that he is doing an online job. He is in fact, also a part of a crime. The scammers have set up well organised scams all over the world and they haven’t even visited Sri Lanka. Through fake passports and identity documents anyone can get SIM cards and that is the dangerous part of this scamming. Mechanism to trace the account According to Damunupola, the only possible way to contact WhatsApp is only through it. If someone has already hacked your WhatsApp account, there is no way to communicate with the support team. They don’t have a direct support email or support team here. Obviously, they see these kinds of things happening within a short period of time. At least, they need to take precautions. If someone’s account is accessed by a different IP, there should be a mechanism to trace it. He said when looking at hacking of social media such as WhatsApp, Facebook and emails, it has mainly affected Facebook as the majority are facebook users. Because of that most of the cases we receive are Facebook hackings and there are several incidents of Instagram hackings as well. During this year, we received nearly 7,000 complaints relating to social media related scams but all these are not relevant to hackings of WhatsApp or Facebook. This includes hacking, creating fake accounts, unauthorised use of photographs and videos by someone else. Those cases are now mainly handled by the CCID because they have a Meta connection mainly for Facebook.

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