Turn on five email settings tonight, starting with an authenticator app and blocked remote images
Five free changes, all of them in menus you already have, and one evening is enough to make them.
MakeUseOf's Danny Maiorca lists five changes that close the easiest routes into a mailbox: two-factor authentication through an authenticator app such as Google Authenticator or the one built into a password manager, a sweep of the third-party apps that still hold access to the account, blocking external images so a tracking pixel cannot quietly report that a message was opened, a whitelist deciding who may reach the inbox at all, and attachment rules that trust only known senders, trusted domains, and safe mailing lists. In Outlook the image setting sits under Settings, then Privacy and data, then External images, where you tick Always use the Outlook service to load images. One of the five is a habit rather than a switch: revisit the connected-app list at least once every few weeks, because access granted once tends to outlive the reason it was granted. The piece closes on strong, unique generated passwords or passkeys, which it describes as phishing-resistant in a way a reused password never is.