[header] How to manage your passwords [title] Avoid using easy-to-identify-and therefore easy-to-hack-passwords such as family names, birthdays, house numbers, phone numbers. [step] In particular, never use a social security number as a password. Hackers have become expert at decrypting social security numbers based on knowledge of how they are assigned to individuals. 
[title] Brainstorm a short list of passwords that you will remember. [step] Have passwords handy before you are prompted to create one helps to take the pressure off and prevent you from creating easily decrypted passwords.