How Can Anyone Remember Them All?

"Passwords are only as secure as a user makes them," said Bill Carey, vice president of marketing and business development at Siber Systems in Fairfax, Va. "Creating an easy-to-guess password completely defeats the purpose of creating a password at all."

"If you provide information and answers to personal questions for a password reset system, don't use information that can be easily discovered on your Facebook page or other social-networking sites," Weaver-Johnson recommended. "You may want to consider creating 'false' answers that only you will remember."

The cloud - the vast network of servers

The "cloud" - the vast network of servers and processors on the Internet - is as well becoming an increasingly popular area to store passwords so that they can be accessed from multiple devices.