At One Man's Blog is a good discussion about how vulnerable passwords are, and how to improve the security of your passwords - How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords.
John presents some data on how quickly hackers can find most passwords. Aftter trying many obvious passwords hackers can use tools for a brute force approach to just all possible combinations. This was an interesting point:
"Adding just one capital letter and one asterisk would change the processing time for an 8 character password from 2.4 days to 2.1 centuries."
It is good to use more than just simple lower case letters.
(Hat tip: Giddy up! Erik Lane's Blog)
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