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it's becoming a regular occurrence websites getting hacked in July the accounts of 6.5 million linked-in users and 400,000 yahoo users were compromised and back in January Zappos suffered a major security breach that affected 24 million customers to protect yourself from future attacks there are a few simple steps you can take like making sure your security updates are current use a up-to-date a heavily patch browser I personally like chrome make sure you keep your system patch that way you don't get compromised me just surfing the web contrary to popular belief it's not necessary to change your password on a regular basis academics pretty much feel that by having people rotate their passwords frequently at forces the choose shorter and shorter passwords things that are actually intentionally weaker over time because people don't have that long term memory when it comes to passwords longer is better come up with a memorable password come up with a very large random string you store in a password vault once you get a habit of using something like that then you're not going to be using the same password in multiple websites if you are the victim of a security breach run don't walk to the nearest computer and change your password and hackers are likely to try using stolen passwords in multiple online locations so if you use that same email and password combo for other sites change those as well in San Francisco I'm Sumi das cnet.com for CBS News