I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time thinking of good passwords. By “good” I mean passwords that are strong yet easy to remember. We all know the importance of a good password, but when I read these articles the point was driven home even more strongly.

Worst Passwords for 2015

Let’s begin by looking at examples of poor passwords. Each year SplashData.com publishes their “Worst Passwords List” and, surprisingly, we continue to use the same passwords year after year. Are you using any of these?

Announcing Our Worst Passwords of 2015

“123456” and “password” once again reign supreme as the most commonly used passwords, as they have since SplashData’s first list in 2011, demonstrating how people’s choices for passwords remain consistently risky. In SplashData’s fifth annual report, compiled from more than 2 million leaked passwords during the year, some new and longer passwords made their debut – perhaps showing an effort by both websites and web users to be more secure. However, the longer passwords are so simple as to make their extra length virtually worthless as a security measure. Read more…

How to Create Secure Passwords

ConnectSafely.org published 12 tips on how to create secure passwords. I like that their suggestions include ideas on how  to create passwords that are easy for us to remember. Here are a few of my favorite tips:

Tips for Strong, Secure Passwords & Other Authentication Tools

A strong password is your first line of defense against intruders and imposters. Never give out your password to anyone.* Never give it to friends, even if they’re really good friends. A friend can – maybe even accidentally – pass your password along to others or even become an ex-friend and abuse it. Read more…

Here are six more practical and easy ideas you can use when you change your password from Observer.com.

Stronger Passwords From Your Personal Biography: Six Tips

These six tricks show that you have information in your brain that’s easily converted into strong passwords. Read more…

I think I’ve found some good tips that I will put to good use. I’ll just have to find a good system for remembering the new passwords. Did you find a good tip or two?