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🚨 Flying Frontier? Watch Out for This Phishing Scam 🚨
Frontier Airlines is warning customers about an active phishing campaign using emails designed to steal personal and payment information.
The airline says it will not email customers asking them to revalidate a flight, confirm credit card information, or provide payment details to receive a refund.
If you receive one of these messages, don't click its links, reply, or enter any personal, login, or payment information.
Instead, check your reservation by going directly to Frontier Airlines through its trusted website or app.
If you've already provided payment information in response to a suspicious email, contact your card issuer or financial institution.
The Cool Tip:
Never let an urgent-looking travel email rush you into clicking.
Verify it directly with the airline first.
- That “Free” Download Could Cost You More Than You Think
Microsoft Security Research is warning about a fake-download campaign targeting people searching for cracked software, free games, activators, plugins, and unofficial utilities.
The downloads use tampered installers that can quietly install additional software, sometimes without the user’s informed knowledge or consent.
Infected PCs could be used to route other people’s internet traffic, contribute computing resources, or run additional utility-style software.
To reduce your risk, avoid cracked software, key generators, unofficial game installers, and software activation tools.
Also keep Microsoft Defender protections enabled.
The Cool Tip:
Download software from trusted sources because a tempting “free” installer could bring along much more than you bargained for.
And in Other News...
- Microsoft AI CEO: Don’t Build Conscious AI
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, is drawing a firm line on one of AI’s biggest questions: Should machines ever become conscious?
He says there is currently no evidence that AI systems are conscious, feel emotions, experience the world, or deserve welfare protections.
Suleyman argues that developers should deliberately design AI systems so they do not become conscious or develop their own intrinsic motivations.
If evidence of consciousness began emerging during training, he says AI development should stop until those properties could be designed out.
Instead, he believes AI should be built with the purpose of improving human well-being while remaining under human control.
The Cool Tip:
As AI gets more capable, the debate may increasingly shift from what AI can do to what we should allow it to become.
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