By Jon W. Poses
An email last week from the University of Missouri School of Music had me at the mere mention of an upcoming event centered on Mary Lou Williams, the late, iconic jazz pianist. To say Williams is a seminal figure in modern jazz is, well, beyond an understatement. She’s
that important and remains
that influential.
At 4 p.m. Thursday, the Middleton Center for Race, Citizenship, and Justice and the School of Music are co-sponsoring the Zoom gathering “Mary Lou Williams: Jazz Composer, Pianist, Activist.” The event features a pair of MU faculty, Stephanie Shonekan and Sam Griffith. (Full disclosure: Griffith is a “We Always Swing” Jazz Series board member.) Members of the MU Concert Jazz Band, who will examine Williams’ music the day before, are also slated to serve on the panel.
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Thomas Frank wrote in a recent essay published in Le Monde Diplomatique , “This essay is not a brief for free speech absolutism, or an effort to rationalize conspiracy theory or an attack on higher learning. It’s about the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the left, and here is the suggestion I mean to make: the form of liberalism I have described here is inherently despicable. A democratic society is naturally going to gag when it’s told again and again in countless ways, both the subtle and gross, that our great national problem is our failure to heed the authority of traditional elites.”
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As tax season begins, the Internal Revenue Service is warning that it s seeing signs of fraudsters spoofing the agency s domains and incorporating its logos and language into phishing campaigns.
Meanwhile, security experts warn of other fraud campaigns spoofing government departments, with some using themes capitalizing on COVID-19 economic relief programs.
Earlier this month, the IRS published a notification to tax professionals describing a phishing campaign that spoofs the agency s likeness, with fraudsters attempting to steal Electronic Filing Identification Numbers. The IRS issues these numbers to individuals or firms that have been approved as authorized IRS e-file providers.
In this phishing email scam, the fraudsters are trying to entice tax preparers to email documents that would disclose their identities and Electronic Filing Identification Numbers. The cybercriminals can then use this information to file fraudulent returns by impersonating the tax profe
T.J. English didn’t quite know what to expect when he went up to Boston earlier this year to promote his eye-opening new book, Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster.
“Boston is the one place where this story is still a contemporary story, because of South Boston and the way Irish-American culture has been preserved in South Boston like no place else,” said English.
Boston, of course, is Whitey Bulger’s old stomping grounds. The man who remains one of the FBI’s most wanted has been on the run for years. But more than a handful of his old soldiers and associates remain in and around Boston. Then there is the perception that Irish Boston remains hostile to any and all outsiders, particularly those who are taking notes or have written books that name names.
Building 92 at Microsoft s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. (Coolcaesar via CC BY-SA 4.0)(Coolcaesar via CC BY-SA 4.0)
Researchers have discovered two business email compromise (BEC) attack techniques that exploit Microsoft 365 âread receiptâ and âout of officeâ message loopholes to evade auto-remediation of a malicious email.
In a blog posted Tuesday, Abnormal Security reported that in using these techniques, scammers target victims with BEC extortion notes by redirecting their own Microsoft 365 âout of officeâ replies and âread receiptsâ back to them. The researchers said these attacks were observed over the U.S. holidays in December 2020, when out-of-office replies and auto-responders were more prevalent.