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<div align=justify>Apparently the Internet is a small world, with CNN Money reporting that most common password used in business settings is: Password1.

In a world where technology is rampant, and changes to privacy agreements create waves of fury, it is a bit hard to believe that people are not tech-savvy enough to select passwords that are at least a little hard to guess.

However, the folks at Mashable are reporting that a Cambridge University team took a page of common passwords and PIN numbers onto the street and five out of every 20 people confirmed seeing their secret code on the list. That is quite an astonishing find, considering the information age has brought a computer into the pockets of folks across the globe.

While being lax in password security is at least a bit understandable for a large business where many people may need access to the same account, using 1111 or 1234 as an ATM PIN is pretty much unforgivable.

Last year Microsoft decided to take a stance against commonly used passwords, as TechWeek Europe reported. If a major company, rooted in technology, can ban the use of easily cracked passwords, than surely other companies can follow suit. It seems pretty clear that users can simply not be trusted, which is probably more about having a few more than a handful of passwords and PINs to remember. Perhaps automatically generating passwords and not allowing users to change them will soon become the order of the day.

In any increasingly electronic and connected world, where sharing, liking, and tweeting are becoming more and more common, protection of account access becomes even more important. Users share some of the responsibility, and everybody is probably guilty of a simple password structure, but removing the temptation seems like the best and easiest way to go. Just like Microsoft did. </div>

''Taken from http://news.yahoo.com''

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