So What's Your Password?

No, no... I don't want you to tell me your password. But I do want you to think about your passwords your have for your various accounts. And if you're reading this, I know you have at least a few.

Here's a real-world example of how weak our online passwords are. Last December, an online service called Rock You was hacked and all 32 million of its accounts were compromised. The hacker then published all the passwords, just the passwords, no account information, on the Web. The Imperva Application Defense Center studied those passwords to get a glimpse into what people are doing online. The results are pretty scary.

The document, titled, Consumer Password Worst Practices (PDF) compares what people are doing against NASA's guidelines for safe passwords. But when almost 300,000 users had "123456" as their password, yikes!

Found via TechCrunch.com