The massive theft of over a BILLION email accounts by a Russian hacker gang – among a ever-expanding list of other hacking events making headlines – has Internet security experts scrambling and ordinary online users wondering what they can do to protect themselves. I have these suggestions. The very first thing Internet users need to do is change their passwords. Use a program called Last Pass to manage all your passwords. It keeps track of your user names and passwords for you and logins in automatically with them. This is how passwords should be…very complex. The program will generate secure passwords like this. Password Genie is another secure password manager.…