This year hasn’t helped stem our fears with hacks on retailers such as Home Depot, Neiman Marcus, UPS, Goodwill, Michael’s and recently, Staples.  Giant JP Morgan Chase’s data breach affected roughly half of all American households, exposing user’s passwords and stored payment information.  NBC Tech News recently reported how to react in light of recent hackings that affect passwords specifically.  They offered some great ways to make up complex passwords to increase security and lessen vulnerability to having your passwords stolen. While we at Tx Systems maintain you should absolutely enforce password policies both at home and at work, we recognize that having a complex password for every single point of authentication is going to confuse users.  In fact, you may be surprised to learn that most companies who enforce complex password policies also run the highest risk of having an employee write their password down and leave it in plain view of the PC.  The most common place where employees leave written passwords is under the keyboard or on a post it note near the monitor.  Or often they’re easy to guess, using names of pets and loved ones.