Never use youre name, birthdate, address, wife or gfs name pets name, kind of car or bike you own for a password. They are the number one thing hackers use first. No phone number either. Make it hard to decrypt. Use special charactersas well. That way a brute force cracker will take days if not weeks to hack it. Change your password once a month or every 2 months. Common sense.

And if your password is password or 123456, or Password1 or your first name or last, kill yourself.

There has been a huge uprise in hacking lately, over the past year some major companies were taken down from it as well as small companies I work for a major security company and we have been cleaning up some major fuckups, the funny thing? User error. If you see something that doesnt look right, dont fucking click it. If you get an email thats fishy even if its from your mom, question it. I swear the biggest problem is social engineering. Microst will NEVER send you a godamn thing saying you have illegal shit or password needs to be "checked" in your email neither will yahoo or google. 90% of the shit cones from idiots that just blindly open emails and log into a phony site because it said youre account will be locked or is going to be locked.