You know, I see alot of posts being thrown around about some super hackers and some equally strange pieces of advice to avoid being hacked. As somebody who has been lucky enough to avoid these misfortunes, there are a few rules to adhere to.

Basic principle to avoid being hacked socially engineered

1. Emails. Don't click the links in them! Yes you just won a trip to Blizzard City but calm down and verify by independently going to your account. Some of you would be surprised how many people actually fall for this.
   
2. Passwords. Its not about password complexity. Its about password repetition. So many people use the same password or variation of the same password. Ironically, a notebook and a pen is a better password manager than any other digital locker.
   
3. Usernames are just as bad. People use the same username for everything. For example, xXHackMeXx@hotmail.com is attached to a xXHackMeXx at forum.suckerd3user.com and is also attached to a battlenet account.
   
4. Networks. ok, this is a little more technical. Public wireless networks, public VPN-s or proxies all are dangerous. So next time you sit at Starbucks on their public wifi showing off your Macbook, somebody is sniffing all the traffic on that wireless network.
   

Most of the time, its the small things that get you hacked, rather than your computer being compromised. And for god's sake, get an authenticator.

Err... I'm guilty of sniffing in public places too. Sometimes, waiting for ppl and I have laptop in hand so just busybody and see what ppl are doing.

u say like everyone got hacked lol