15 simple steps to protect your accounts, phone and Wi-Fi in one evening. No tech skills needed.
A plain-language checklist to make you much harder to hack, track or scam. Do one section per evening, or all of it in about an hour.
ACCOUNTS (most important) ☐ 1. Turn on two-factor authentication (2FA) for email, banking and social apps. Use an authenticator app, not SMS, where possible. ☐ 2. Use a password manager and give every account its own long password. ☐ 3. Check if your email appeared in a data breach (search "have I been pwned") and change those passwords first. ☐ 4. Remove old devices and sessions in your Google, Apple and Meta account settings. ☐ 5. Set up account recovery options (backup email, recovery codes) and store the codes offline.
PHONE ☐ 6. Update your phone and apps — most attacks use old bugs. ☐ 7. Review app permissions: location, microphone, camera, contacts. Set to "while using" or "never". ☐ 8. Turn on a screen lock with a 6-digit PIN or longer, plus Find My / Find My Device. ☐ 9. Delete apps you haven't opened in 3 months.
WI-FI & BROWSING ☐ 10. Change your home router's default admin password and use WPA3 or WPA2. ☐ 11. On public Wi-Fi (cafés, hotels, airports), use a trusted VPN so the network owner can't see what you do. ☐ 12. Use a browser with tracker blocking and turn on "HTTPS-only" mode.
SCAMS ☐ 13. Never share one-time codes, seed phrases or passwords — no real company will ask. ☐ 14. Check links before you tap: long-press to see the real address. ☐ 15. When a message is urgent and asks for money, call the person or company on a number you already know.
BONUS: test your connection — a good VPN shows a DNS leak test and WebRTC leak test, so you can check your real IP isn't exposed. Korp VPN (by Korp Systems) has these built in and a 5-day free trial; you'll find it on iamai.markets.
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