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Good news for Google Chrome users - the long-anticipated password syncing functionality has just popped up in the Developer version of the Google Chrome Web browser, which means similar support for users of the beta and stable versions of Chrome is likely to be just around the corner.

We were able to test the new syncing functionality this morning between multiple computers and encountered no errors or obstacles. Password syncing appears to be a go!

What makes a great password may not be its complexity but how many words you want to string in a row.

Passwords get hacked in five basic ways, writes Thomas Baekdal in a blog post on the topic:

The big Hollywood pictures always make breaking into computers look like a fabulously hip and complicated process. It involves excitement and ingenuity and often times, because it's just so difficult and exciting, a bit of sweat on the brow. But in reality, it's as easy as "123456". And if that doesn't work, we'd suggest trying "12345", next.

A report released today looks at a list of 32 million passwords and what it finds doesn't
say good things about most of us and our password practices.

In a chat today lasting over an hour, we got to talk to a person claiming to be the infamous hacker behind RockYou's latest data security woes.

While he claimed to have no animosity toward users, he had one clear message for websites: Take better care of your customers' data. RockYou isn't the only hacked site storing plain text login information, either.

Last week's flurry of Twitter DM spam from hacked or phished accounts wasn't the first instance of that and won't be the last.

As long as people are willing to trust their Twitter log-in information to third parties - and don't look carefully at URLs before they log into websites - and as long as a small number of bad actors want to pee in the social media swimming pool, this kind of thing will continue happening.