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Maryland Department of Labor discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

The security breach was discovered earlier this year, hackers also accessed data stored in the Literacy Works Information System and a legacy unemployment insurance service database. ” Threat actors accessed to files stored in the Literacy Works Information System that are dated back 2009, 2010, and 2014. .

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The man behind Cardplanet credit card market sentenced to 9 years in prison

Security Affairs

The man operated the Cardplanet site between at least early 2009 through at least August 2013. The membership also requested a sum of money, normally $5,000, as insurance. In November, the suspect has been extradited to the US to face criminal charges.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , Megatraffer has been active on more than a half-dozen crime forums from September 2009 to the present day. In November 2009, Fitis wrote, “I am the perfect criminal. WHO IS MEGATRAFFER? And on most of these identities, Megatraffer has used the email address 774748@gmail.com.

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Connecticut AG Announces Agreement with MetLife over 2009 Breach Incident

Hunton Privacy

On January 24, 2011, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen and Consumer Protection Commissioner William Rubenstein announced that they had reached an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (“AVC”) with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

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MY TAKE: A primer on how ransomware arose to the become an enduring scourge

The Last Watchdog

insurance giant Beazley Worldwide reported that the average ransomware demand in 2018 was more than $116,000, a figure admittedly skewed by some very large demands. A poll of IT pros in the U.S., Canada, Germany and the U.K. conducted by Osterman Research found nearly 40 percent of ransomware victims choose to pay.

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NEW TECH: Brinqa takes a ‘graph database’ approach to vulnerability management, app security

The Last Watchdog

Related: Data breaches fuel fledgling cyber insurance market. Brinqa was founded in 2009 by Amad Fida and Hilda Perez, industry veterans seeking to leverage their collective expertise in risk management and identity and access management. Enterprises, especially, tend to be methodical and plodding.

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Nationwide Agrees to Pay $5.5 Million to Settle Multistate Data Breach Investigation

Hunton Privacy

On August 9, 2017, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. In October 2012, Nationwide and its affiliate, Allied Property & Casualty Insurance Co. According to the attorneys general, Nationwide and Allied had failed to deploy a critical software patch that was released in 2009 to address the vulnerability. million individuals. .