These phish attempts are worse, much worse, for those of you who insist on using one password everywhere and forever. Again, once a phishing attack lands a password and user account login, or worse, an email login that can be used to confirm logins, these thieves will try using those logins to the top 20 to 50 banking and ecommerce sites, and see what accounts they get access to. AI will make this worse…
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Phish are evolving. In the past, large schools of phish were easily recognized as scams by looking for stupid stuff in the allegedly-urgent emails. There were spelling and grammar errors, capitalization errors that match other languages but not English, bad-logic lines like ‘in your nearest post office,’ and most important, the sending email address is some random international address that you don’t do business with. Logos of vendors were frequently out-of-date, and the links were clearly going to links ending in two-character country codes. AI is cleaning up those issues, and the phish are looking more like real business emails….
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Windows 11 just won’t shut up. OneDrive this, backup that, and it’s all a distraction from getting work done. In the free February 2026 PC Updater News, learn how to turn off the notifications and popups. And turn ON the Emojis icon, which also inserts international characters, not just :-). Back issues and subscriptions are here.