Microsoft may be cracking down on using local accounts, but there's still a workaround or two to avoid logging in to a Microsoft account.

You can turn to trusted contacts to recover your Google account. You can also sign in to a new phone just by using your number. Google Messages will alert you to spam and keep your texts private.

A council worker in charge of housing benefit payments, including fraud detection, swindled her employer out of almost half a million pounds. Joella Preston fraudulently received £493,487 by setting ...