Word is coming down that nearly 200,000,000 passwords are now out in the wild after a digital breach. The platforms affected are: According to Website Planet, the cybertheft was carried out by using
Read MoreWhen a band goes on tour, they can never, ever be too careful. Same thing goes for promoters. If there’s ONE thing you need, it’s insurance against the weird things that can happen.
Read MoreGetting in and out of foreign countries can be one of the biggest hassles any musician will ever face. Radiohead has had their share of customs hassles, but none quite as weird as
Read MoreThe news keeps coming about the Manchester concert bombing. The UK paused for a minute of silence today at 11 am local time to remember the victims. Once it was over, a woman started
Read MoreThe war on ticket-scalping bots just got a powerful new ally: a security outfit backed by military intelligence dedicated to staying months ahead of hackers by studying the minute differences between human operators
Read MoreHow many times have you been to a place of music only to have a pat-down, your bags searched and a walk through a metal detector? In the old days, security was more
Read MoreFrom the second the Paris attacks began, concert promoters and venue operators worldwide went “Uh-oh. This is gonna be bad.” If armed suicide-vested gunmen can just walk into a gig and kill a
Read MoreThe long-awaited (and well-reviewed) NWA bio-pic, Straight Outta Compton, opens today and Los Angeles is on edge. According to showbiz site The Wrap, “Deputies will be doing patrol checks during their shifts and the
Read MoreA coder from Russia named Kamil Hismatullin was playing around with YouTube when he discovered a hack that apparently made it possible for anyone on the outside to wipe any video clean forever.
Read MoreWhen I started going to gigs in the 1970s, concert security in my hometown consisted of hiring the local motorcycle gang. They’d show up in their colour and make life miserable to anyone
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