Secure Your Microsoft Accounts With Recovery Codes and Recent Activity

Time and again, we hear of important services–some as big as Adobe and Buffer–getting hacked and losing high-security information like accounts and passwords. It’s best to lock down your accounts as tightly as possible beforehand and Microsoft is taking a step in that direction with its new security features for online accounts. Back in April, Microsoft added two-step authentication to its online accounts. It’s one of the 5 ways to deter hackers, so you should enable that if you haven’t already. Following this up, Microsoft is now providing information about recent activity, recovery codes and security notifications. Recovery Code One...

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