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Careful Research Lands Maryland Lottery Player $50K 'Christmas Gift' Careful Research Lands Maryland Lottery Player $50K 'Christmas Gift'
Careful Research Lands Maryland Lottery Player $50K 'Christmas Gift' It's going to be happy holidays for the family of a Maryland Lottery player who carefully picked his spot and wound up winning a five-figure prize on a specifically selected scratcher. The Baltimore man must have made the "nice list" this year after he won a $50,000 second-tier prize playing a "Bonus Bingo X20" ticket that he celebrated at Lottery Headquarters. The 20-year cybersecurity expert who dubbed his big win "Christmas Gift," did his homework before heading out and picking up his winning ticket. The man said that he went on the Maryland Lottery website to research his instant ticke…
Prince George's County Public Schools Hit Cyberattack Prince George's County Public Schools Hit Cyberattack
Prince George's County Public Schools Hit Cyberattack Prince George’s County Schools were the target of a cyberattack that impacted thousands of accounts, district officials announced. On Monday morning, an estimated 4,500 user accounts out of 180,000 were impacted by the attack, primarily members of the staff, they said, though as of Tuesday afternoon they were still assessing the full scope of the incident. The following day, officials said that the main business and student information systems - Oracle and SchoolMAX - do not appear to be impacted, though the district is delaying password resets until noon on Tuesday, Aug. 15. Anyone impact…
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Orders TikTok Ban For Government Employees Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Orders TikTok Ban For Government Employees
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Orders TikTok Ban For Government Employees Outgoing Gov. Larry Hogan is taking steps to ensure that there will be no TikToking coming out of the Maryland State House anytime soon. Hogan announced on Tuesday, Dec. 6 that the state is issuing an emergency cybersecurity directive that will prohibit the use of certain Chinese and Russian-influenced products and platforms - including TikTok - in the state's executive branch. “These entities present an unacceptable level of cybersecurity risk to the state, and may be involved in activities such as cyber-espionage, surveillance of government entities, and inappropriate collection of sensi…