President AKD passes 1 Million FB followers, which politician has more?
2024-09-26
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has achieved a significant social media milestone, becoming the 6th Sri Lankan politician to surpass oneContinue Reading
Social media mobile phone scam : One robber shot dead
2024-03-27
One person was reported dead in a shooting incident involving a group of robbers and the Police in the WeragalaContinue Reading
Sri Lankan Minister’s Facebook page hacked?
2024-03-26
The Facebook page of Minister of Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation of Sri Lanka, Pavithra Wanniarachchi has reportedly been compromisedContinue Reading
Major scam using public pictures on Facebook
2024-02-16
Two individuals engaged in financial fraud by creating fake National Identity Cards (NIC) using photographs shared on social media haveContinue Reading
Angry Facebook post gets 19-year-old remanded
2023-09-05
A 19-year-old youth who had made a post on Facebook allegedly threatening President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been remanded. The suspectContinue Reading
Sri Lanka Top cop’s Facebook page hacked
2023-08-14
The official Facebook page of the Western Province Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police (SDIG) Deshabandu Tennakoon has faced aContinue Reading
Minister’s FB page ‘hacked’, link with explicit content added
2023-05-24
The official Facebook account of Sri Lanka’s Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara was compromised following a cyberContinue Reading
Facebook owner Meta to cut 10,000 jobs in second round of layoffs
2023-03-16
Meta Platforms has announced it will slash a further 10,000 jobs in a second round of mass layoffs as theContinue Reading
Facebook, Instagram launch paid subscription in Australia, New Zealand
2023-02-24
Facing a drop in advertising revenues, Facebook and Instagram have begun a week-long rollout of their first paid verification service,Continue Reading
Financial fraud : 19 yr old arrested for posing as car showroom owner
2022-12-09
The Bambalapitiya Police has arrested a 19-year-old individual on charges of financially defrauding individuals by posing as the owner ofContinue Reading
Police reveal details of large-scale online scam
2022-11-18
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has uncovered a large-scale online financial scam operated by fraudulently obtaining people’s one-time password (OTP)Continue Reading
Bank officer robbed of Rs. 2.7M in Facebook dollar scam
2022-11-03
The Peliyagoda Police has launched an investigation into an incident of an officer of a private bank being scammed byContinue Reading
Parliament: Two journalists reprimanded, FB user warned
2022-10-06
Two senior journalists affiliated with a leading Sinhala newspaper have been reprimanded by the Committee on Ethics and Privileges forContinue Reading
