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Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account — Windows users are now herded into an online-only portal for activation

Microsoft has been gradually making it harder to activate Windows (and other products) without an internet connection. Most recently, it started clamping down on local accounts that could bypass OOBE sign-in, and now we’re seeing reports that another legacy method has been retired. Phone activation, where you could call Microsoft to activate Windows & Office, […]

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Weekend reading: Are you positively giddy with the FTSE’s excitement going into 2026?

What caught my eye this week. Despite all the noise about US mega-cap tech shares and the gloom around the moribund UK economy, London’s FTSE 100 index beat the hallowed US markets in 2025: Source: Google Finance These figures don’t even include dividends. Adding them in would favour the FTSE further, with its higher yield. […]

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Cybercriminals Abuse Google Cloud Email Feature in Multi-Stage Phishing Campaign

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a phishing campaign that involves the attackers impersonating legitimate Google-generated messages by abusing Google Cloud’s Application Integration service to distribute emails. The activity, Check Point said, takes advantage of the trust associated with Google Cloud infrastructure to send the messages from a legitimate email address (“noreply-application-integration@google[.]com”) so that they […]

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What to check before you ‘update’

On-chain security researcher ZachXBT flagged hundreds of wallets across multiple EVM chains getting drained for small amounts, typically under $2,000 per victim, funneling into a single suspicious address. The theft total climbed past $107,000 and kept rising. The root cause is still unknown, but users reported receiving a phishing email disguised as a mandatory MetaMask […]

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