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Last.fm phish strikes a bum note
Crooks tune in to net unwary
By John Leyden

Posted in ID, 8th June 2009 14:04 GMT

Fraudsters have launched an attack which aims to trick Last.fm users into handing over their login credentials.

The assault is the latest example of cybercrooks applying phishing techniques towards Web 2.0 sites, such as Twitter and Last.fm, as well as the traditional targets of online banking and ecommerce sites. Part of the reason for this could be that some surfers tend to use the same passwords for low sensitivity sites, such as Last.fm,…

Wed 3 Jun – Death Vessel, Ryan Lee Crosby, Marc Pinansky, Mike Gent and the Rapid Shave

Everyone was great. Mike Gent's new trio was a great surprise. Death Vessel is astonishing, and humanity is too much of a moron to hear it.

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

96/100

The 96 related artists for my profile are Alex Chilton, Badfinger, Bash & Pop, Beat Happening, Bert Jansch, Blake Babies, Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash, Bob Mould,…

Mary Lou Lord is an indie/folk rock musician and recording artist from Salem, Massachusetts, USA. She has also toured with Elliott Smith.

She announced in 2005 that she was suffered from a rare vocal chord affliction known as spasmodic dysphonia. She thereafter became more involved in A&R work and started a new management company with her husband Kevin Patey (Raging Teens).

Mary Lou is a treasure of the highest order, in the indie/folk universe. She has created a canon of simple yet highly personal deconstructions of "folk" songs - although terms like folk, indie, singer-songwriter are entirely…