A website called RockYou was recently breached, and 32 million passwords were posted to the Internet for a short period of time.

“This was the mother lode,” said Matt Weir, a doctoral candidate in the e-crimes and investigation technology lab at Florida State University, where researchers examining the data.

Nearly 1% of the 32,000,000 passwords posted (320,000) were "123456".

Overusing simple passwords is not a new phenomenon. A similar survey examined computer passwords used in the mid-1990s and found that the most popular ones at that time were “12345,” “abc123” and “password.”

Single sign-on is going to accelerate the need to strengthen the front door to the Internet, and we've got a lot of work to do, but the smart phone holds the promise of resolving a number of these issues in the years to come.