I've seen several postings with people encountering issues with online accounts where they've had insecure passwords.

I've had over 10 years of experience with e-commerce development and security and I wanted to share some tips.


1. Make the password as long as possible. A website that's dealing with money and asking for less then 9 characters in your password has issues ( I'm looking at you Mt.Gox )
2. Combine the following; Upper and Lowercase characters, Numbers and Letters, Special characters (!,@,$,.,*... etc)
3. The more complex the better.


Examples of Good Passwords
!2#gHg6.&s
*(fs3IIIid3!F)

Examples of Bad Passwords
sdrawkcab
12121976
password

Hope this helps some of you