Random music news for Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Into fantasy football? Try this. It’s…weird. (Via Andrew). Moving to music news for October 7, 2020. Lost in the coverage of Eddie Van Halen’s death is the passing of Johnny Nash at age
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Malware
DJs are being used to hide malware
Malware creators seem to have a thing for EDM. According to anti-virus company Kaspersky, there’s a lot of malicious files that use the names of DJs in their malware. With so many gigs
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Here’s why you shouldn’t download this JPEG of Taylor Swift
If you’re a Taylor Swift fan, you might want to hold off downloading any new images of her. Mining cryptocurrency takes a lot of distributed computing power. To achieve the scale necessary, you
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An Anti-Virus Company Calls Avril Lavigne “The Most Dangerous Celebrity Online” When It Comes to Malware
McAfee, one of the big anti-virus software companies, is worried about Canadian musicians. AScared, actually. While observing the malware bouncing around the Internet, the company has issued a new set of rankings of “celebrities
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Best WTF Music Story of the Week: Russian Malware Uses Comments in Britney Spears’ Instagram Account to Communicate
Those following the perpetual saga of Russian hacking know about Turla, a group that loves mounting attacks on countries and other jurisdictions in a way that benefit the homeland. They could be official
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Could Bad (Read: Malicious) Music Take Over Your Car?
We’re hurtling towards of the era autonomous car, which is cool but it’s also going to cause all kinds of problems. Here’s one: could malicious music take over your self-driving car? Forget CIA
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Holy Crap! Wikileaks Says That the CIA Knows How to Hack Our Phones, TVs and More
There was another huge dump of documents–8,761, to be exact–by Wikileaks today under the name “Vault,” all purported to be taken from the CIA’s Centre for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Virginia. If Wikileaks
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Did the Record Industry Just Release Malware to Delete Your P2P Software?
About a decade ago, Sony BMG was determined to do something about people ripping their CDs and then sharing the music as MP3 files on P2P networks like Limewire and Kazaa. They secreted
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