Five-wicket Kuldeep runs through West Indies, India enforce follow-on

Spinner Kuldeep Yadav claimed five wickets as India bowled out the West Indies for 248 and enforced the follow-on in the second Test on Sunday.The tourists resumed on day three at 140-4 and their innings ended in the second session 270 runs adrift of India’s first innings 518-5 declared.West Indies lost regular wickets and were in deep trouble at 175-8, but Khary Pierre and Anderson Phillip, who hit 24 not out, put on a stubborn stand of 46 to steer their team through to lunch.Jasprit Bumrah bowled the left-handed Pierre for 23 in the first over after lunch but Phillip and Jayden Seales further frustrated the bowlers.Kuldeep, a left-arm wrist spinner, finally trapped Seales lbw for 13 for his fifth five-wicket haul in his 15th Test.He bowled the first over of the day and struck inside 30 minutes as he bowled Shai Hope for 36, the batsman adding just five to his overnight score.Tevin Imlach was the next to go when Kuldeep had him given out lbw for 21, a decision that was reviewed but the ball was shown to be hitting leg stump.Justin Greaves also fell lbw to Kuldeep for 17 and Jomel Warrican was bowled by Mohammed Siraj for one.India won the first Test in Ahmedabad by an innings and 140 runs.

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Voting began Sunday as Cameroon holds presidential elections which 92-year-old Paul Biya, the world’s oldest serving head of state, is expected to win, extending his already 43-year grip on power.Biya faces 11 opponents, including former employment minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary, 79, who has generated unexpected enthusiasm among voters in the central African nation, where half …

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Pakistan 107-1 at lunch in first South Africa Test

Opener Imam-ul-Haq hit a solid half-century as Pakistan reached 107-1 at lunch on the opening day of the first Test against South Africa in Lahore on Sunday.Haq was unbeaten on 59 while skipper Shan Masood was 44 not out as the duo steadied Pakistan after losing opener Abdullah Shafique for two off the third ball of the match.With the Gaddafi Stadium pitch likely to take spin, Masood opted to bat after winning the toss and named specialist spin duo Noman Ali and Sajid Khan in the team.Haq completed his 10th Test fifty, including five fours, in an unbroken 105 stand with Masood.South African captain Aiden Markram introduced spin in the sixth over and by lunch had used all three of his spinners — Prenelan Subrayen, Simon Harmer and Senuran Muthusamy.But it was pace spearhead Kagiso Rabada who got the lone breakthrough in the first over, trapping Shafique leg-before.The two-match series is part of the new World Test Championship two-year cycle. South Africa won the title by beating Australia in June.

Australian airline Qantas says millions of customers’ data leaked online

Australian airline Qantas said Sunday that data from 5.7 million customers stolen in a major cyberattack this year had been shared online, part of a leak affecting dozens of firms.Disney, Google, IKEA, Toyota, McDonald’s and fellow airlines Air France and KLM are also reported to have had data stolen in a cyberattack targeting software firm Salesforce, with the information now being held to ransom.Salesforce said this month it was “aware of recent extortion attempts by threat actors”.Qantas confirmed in July that hackers had targeted one of its customer contact centres, breaching a computer system used by a third party now known to have been Salesforce.They secured access to sensitive information such as customer names, email addresses, phone numbers and birthdays, the blue-chip Australian company said.No further breaches have taken place since and the company is cooperating with Australian security services.”Qantas is one of a number of companies globally that has had data released by cyber criminals following the airline’s cyber incident in early July, where customer data was stolen via a third party platform,” the company said in a statement.Most of the data leaked was names, email addresses and frequent flyer details, the firm said.But some of the data included customers’ “business or home address, date of birth, phone number, gender and meal preferences”.”No credit card details, personal financial information or passport details were impacted,” Qantas said.It also said it had obtained a legal injunction with the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where the firm is headquartered, to prevent the stolen data being “accessed, viewed, released, used, transmitted or published”.Cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt told AFP that would do little to prevent the spread of the data.”It’s frankly ridiculous,” he said.”It obviously doesn’t stop criminals at all anywhere, and it also really doesn’t have any effect on people outside of Australia.”- Hackers ‘laying siege’ -In response to questions about the leak, tech giant Google pointed AFP to an August statement in which it said one of its corporate Salesforce servers had been targeted. It did not confirm if the data had been leaked.”Google responded to the activity, performed an impact analysis and has completed email notifications to the potentially affected businesses,” Melanie Lombardi, head of Google Cloud Security Communications, said.Cybersecurity analysts have linked the hack to individuals with ties to an alliance of cybercriminals called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters.Research group Unit 42 said in a note the group had “asserted responsibility for laying siege to customer Salesforce tenants as part of a coordinated effort to steal data and hold it for ransom”.The hackers had reportedly set an October 10 deadline for ransom payment.- ‘Oldest tricks in the book’ -The hackers stole the sensitive data using a social engineering technique, referring to a tactic of manipulating victims by pretending to be a company representative or other trusted person, experts said.The FBI last month issued a warning about such attacks targeting Salesforce.The agency said hackers posing as IT workers had tricked customer support employees into granting them access to sensitive data.”They have been very effective,” expert Hunt said.”And it hasn’t been using any sophisticated technical exploits… they have exploited really the oldest tricks in the books.”The hack of data from Australia’s biggest airline comes as a string of major cyberattacks in the country has raised concerns about the protection of personal data.Qantas apologised last year after a glitch with its mobile app exposed some passengers’ names and travel details.And major ports handling 40 percent of Australia’s freight trade ground to a halt in 2023 after hackers infiltrated computers belonging to operator DP World.