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Descrease article font size Increase article font size The fires that led to a state of emergency in a Newfoundland and Labrador town Friday are now under control, RCMP say. Happy Valley-Goose Bay declared the state of emergency after the blazes had spread to an area containing explosive material. The …
Read More »Toronto police seek to identify man allegedly posing as SickKids fundraiser – Toronto
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto police are looking to the public for help in identifying a man who has reportedly posed as a fundraiser for SickKids. Since November, there have been multiple reports of a man going to apartment buildings in downtown Toronto and falsely portraying …
Read More »Man posing as police officer gains woman’s trust, then sexually assaults her: Durham police
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A man posing as a police officer met a woman online and gained her trust before sexually assaulting her, Durham Regional Police allege. Police said in a news release Tuesday that officers became involved in a sex assault investigation on March 28. …
Read More »Suspect posing as support worker charged after sexual assault on elderly Toronto man – Toronto
Toronto police say they have charged a man accused of posing as a health support worker and sexually assaulting an 87-year-old man in his home. Police said on Sept. 23, 2022, a man impersonated a health support worker and visited the home of the elderly man. The home is located …
Read More »Impersonators posing as homeowners linked to 32 property fraud cases in Ontario and B.C.
Mortgage and title fraudsters who impersonate homeowners and tenants have targeted at least 32 properties in Ontario and British Columbia, investigators and official warnings suggest. Insurance investigator Brian King, president and CEO of King International Advisory Group, said his firm had received 30 such claims in Ontario. They include six …
Read More »B.C. judge cancels marriage annulment after finding woman posing as ex-wife was ‘imposter’
A B.C. Supreme Court judge in Kamloops has cancelled a marriage annulment after concluding that the woman who appeared before him to consent to the order was an “imposter.” In a ruling he said was necessary — in part — to prevent a “miscarriage of justice,” Justice Dennis Hori last week set aside an order …
Read More »~4,300 publicly reachable servers are posing a new DDoS hazard to the Internet
Criminals are upping the potency of distributed denial-of-service attacks with a technique that abuses a widely used Internet protocol that drastically increases the amount of junk traffic directed at targeted servers. DDoSes are attacks that flood a website or server with more data than it can handle. The result is …
Read More »In leaked email, Amazon says it will suspend Parler's AWS account on Jan. 10 at 11:59PM PST for not complying with its TOS and posing a risk to public safety (John Paczkowski/BuzzFeed News)
John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed News: In leaked email, Amazon says it will suspend Parler’s AWS account on Jan. 10 at 11:59PM PST for not complying with its TOS and posing a risk to public safety — Amazon on Saturday kicked Parler off its Web hosting services. Parler, a social network …
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