We need a password for everything online these days. And most of us use the same password for banking, email, credit card accounts, etc. And to add to the security problem, we also use a pet's name, kids birthday, etc. This puts our bank accounts and identity at risk.
How can we pick a password that will actually be safe and still be able to remember it when we need to log into our accounts? When I choose a password online I normally think of a sentence such as "My Mom's 1 Favorite Color Is Red 7." Of course we aren't going to use the whole sentence as our password. We are going to pick the first letter out of each word: MM1FCIR7. This password is much more difficult for hackers to decipher and much easier for you to store in a safe place. The numbers in the password satisfy the requirement that passwords have a number in them. The best part about using this method is you can use that one sentence to create passwords for several accounts.
Most of the customers I assist in their computer needs often are worried about hackers hacking into their computers. While this is something to protect yourself against, don't let down your guard by picking a password that is obvious for someone else to figure out.
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