Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is a private, nonprofit, coeducational, and nonsectarian university situated between Manchester and Hooksett, New Hampshire, in the United States. The university is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, along with national accreditations for some hospitality, health, education and business degrees.


SNHU is best known for its online programs, which have made it one of the country's fastest-growing universities.

Ghanaian president, Akufo-Addo has reacted to the trending video of a police officer in the country beating a nursing mother at a bank. The president says he has given his full support to the Inspector General of Police in Ghana to deal decisively with the erring police officer.

”Policemen are meant to protect citizens not to assault citizens. The message that the IGP has taken to sanction the erring policeman and and to try and make sure that these things don’t happen again, they have my complete support. I support 100% the measures he has taken so that we can stop these incidents from proliferating” he said.

A French priest has been suspended from “all baptism and marriage celebrations” after a viral video showed him slapping a baby on the face during a baptism ceremony, the diocese said.
Father Jacque Lacroix, 89, a priest who belonged to the Meaux Diocese, became a viral sensation after a YouTube video showed him giving a baby a slap on the cheek. The video, which has been viewed more than 5 million times, sparked backlash from viewers.

The diocese released a statement on Friday regarding the viral video, saying that Lacroix has been suspended.

“This short video is an excerpt from the celebration during which the baby cries a lot. The elderly priest loses his temper and slaps the child. Aware of this inappropriate gesture, the priest apologized to the family at the end of the baptism,” the statement read.

The diocese then announced that Lacroix was “suspended from all baptism and marriage celebrations.”

“On Friday, June 22, Bishop Nahmias, Bishop of Meaux, took provisional measures to ensure that the priest was suspended from all baptism and marriage celebrations. These measures also require him not to intervene on the Collegiate Church of Champeaux now and to celebrate masses only at the express request of the parish priest,” the statement concluded.


Lacroix spoke to France Info radio about the video, referring to the hit as “something between a caress and a little slap,” AFP reported.

“The child was bawling and I needed to turn his head so I could pour the water. I was saying ‘be quiet’ but he wouldn’t calm down,” Lacroix said. “It was something between a caress and a little slap. I was trying to calm him down, I didn’t really know what to do.”

The video made the rounds on Reddit, YouTube and Twitter. It was not immediately clear when the video was recorded.

Facebook has suspended another analytics firm that harvested public data from its platform pending a full investigation into the company’s practices.

Crimson Hexagon, a Boston-based firm that produces consumer insights powered by AI, claims to have a repository of over 1 trillion public social media posts from companies such as Twitter and Facebook.

On Friday, the tech giant said it was suspending the analytics firm from Facebook and Instagram while it probes any potential violations.

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“We are investigating the claims about Crimson Hexagon to see if they violated any of our policies,” Ime Archibong, VP of Product Partnerships for Facebook, said in a statement. “Facebook has a responsibility to help protect people’s information which is one of the reasons why we have tightened our APIs significantly over the last few years.”

Chris Bingham, Crimson Hexagon’s chief technology officer, confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that the company is cooperating with Facebook’s inquiry and that the two firm’s teams are already meeting up.

Crimson Hexagon, which pulls publicly available data from users’ social media profiles on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere, lists on its website a range of big companies as customers—including Samsung, BBC, Walmart and GM. Although Facebook has come under fire in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal, its users may or may not be aware that, unless their settings are “private,” a lot of what they post, click on and share to the platform can be seen by the public.

Those posts, likes and tweets, which add up to a vast amount of data, can then be used by companies or government agencies trying to discern a person’s voting preferences or their consumer habits, for example. Post the Cambridge Analytica fallout, many Americans are not aware of how their data is harnessed for a myriad of purposes.

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According to The Journal, Crimson Hexagon sold its proprietary analytics platform in countries including Russia and Turkey, and it worked for a nonprofit known as the Civil Society Development Foundation to study Russians’ opinions of President Vladimir Putin.

In addition, U.S. government agencies have reportedly paid Crimson Hexagon more than $800,000 for 22 different contracts, including one last month with the State Department worth $240,000, The Journal reported.

In a blog post, Bingham emphasized that his company only accesses public data and that “under no circumstances” is surveillance a permitted use for governments using its platform.

Developers are not permitted to build surveillance tools using information from its platform, Facebook confirmed to Fox News. The company has also not yet found that Crimson Hexagon obtained data inappropriately.

Also, there are no allegations of wrongdoing on the part of the government agencies that contracted with Crimson Hexagon.

Popular mobile games such as "Clash of Clans," "Clash Royale" and "Marvel Contest of Champions" are being used to launder money, according to a new report from a German cybersecurity company.

In its report Kromtech notes that more than 20,000 credit cards were stolen from April 2018 to June 2018.

"Money laundering through the Apple AppStore or Google Play isn’t a new idea and has been done before," said Kromtech communications director Alexander Kernishniuk in the blog post announcing the findings.

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The aforementioned games were likely easy targets for thieves because of their size and scale. According to Kromtech, there are more than 250 million aggregate users for the three games, which generate a combined $330 million in annual revenue.

The thieves steal the credit card data, make purchases and then resell the accounts with the purchases to a third-party, so they have no connection to the stolen credit cards.

"The resources even maintain value after purchase, because in many cases, once bought, they can be traded, adding to the game play," said Kromtech Security head of communications Bob Diachenko. "The game itself can also be transferred from one account to another. Because of this, resources gathered or bought and games built to advanced levels can also be resold.  It is the selling of these on third party markets that holds the door open to the illicit activity that we found taking place."

News of Kromtech's findings was first reported by Variety.

It's fairly simple for thieves to get the data they need. Apple IDs are needed to make purchases, but they only need items like a password, date of birth, security questions, and an email address.

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"E-mail accounts are also very easy to create with a few providers requiring little in the way of verification," Kromtech wrote in its blog. "Combined, the carders were able to automate the account creation process, as you’ll see, allowing them to create accounts on a large scale."

Kromtech initially found stolen data on hacked MongoDB databases and from there, dug deeper, only to find that the database "appeared to belong to credit card thieves (commonly known as carders) and that it was relatively new, only a few months old."

Kromtech said it has sent its findings to the Department of Justice and is advising developers and Apple to make their systems more secure.

"Service providers need to meet today’s realities and properly secure their account creation process from abuse by automated tools," Kromtech wrote in its post. "Apple and the e-mail providers used did not do enough to protect against this kind of abuse."

The company continued: "Game makers could do a better job of policing their policies along with tracking and pursuing abusers. Apple could do the same."

When Nintendo launched the Switch and sales were much better than anyone expected, it looked as thought the 3DS was on life support. Surely sales would drop off quickly for the seven-year-old handheld now a portable console was available, right? Well, they didn't, and Nintendo is considering a new handheld to replace it.

Confirmation of that comes from Shuntaro Furukawa, Nintendo's new president. Furukawa has been an employee of Nintendo since 1994, starting out as an accountant before moving into global marketing, then working as a director with The Pokemon Company, and being involved in Switch development. He took on the role of president last month.

As Nintendo Everything reports, Furukawa explained that "the 3DS has certain advantages over the Switch such as ease of purchase and the like" and that Nintendo is "considering various possibilities" for a successor. The 3DS is certainly cheaper than the Switch, which makes it more desirable to those gaming on a budget or to parents with young children. It's also much easier to slide in a pocket and has battery life Switch owners can only dream of. In terms of sales, the 3DS went past 72 million units in April and new games are planned for 2019.

Although there's clearly no firm commitment from Nintendo yet, it will be interesting to see what, if anything, the company creates to replace the 3DS. I'd bet money on it retaining backwards compatibility with the 3DS and keeping the two screen format to differentiate it from the Switch. The internals and displays are well overdue a major update, though. Could we get a couple of 720p displays? And what will Nintendo call this new handheld?