Security and Your Passwords

I just wanted to make a quick comment about security. When people complete help desk requests with me, they often send me their main admin user name and password. Normally, I recommend creating a new one for me, and for any vendor. But my main observation is many people are still making the old password mistakes. Following is an article about the top 10 passwords people use, and I've seen several of these in what people send me. I also see a lot of "admin, admin" or "bobsmith, bobsmith" or even worse, "domain, domain" where domain is the actual domain name for the site. This just makes it way too easy for intruders to get into your customer's information, and possibly credit card information.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2113976,00.asp

You should come up with different passwords for everything, and make them secure and random. Use this tool if needed: http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/. If you have trouble remembering your passwords (I know we all have tons of them), check out this article that recommends some helpful software:

http://netsecurity.about.com/od/newsandeditorial1/a/storepasswords.htm