Look, we're not trying to spark a religious debate here, and if Jesus is your co-pilot, that's wonderful. But turning to 'Jesus' to secure your logins is about as ineffective as protecting your accounts with 'Ninja', which also appears on SplashData's "Worst Passwords of 2012." The self-explanatory list contains five new entries, two of which we just mentioned. What about the rest? Let's have a look.

Misery loves company, though that probably won't come as much consolation to social networking site LinkedIn, which is now joined by at least two other sites that suffered a serious security breach at the hands of the same band of hackers. Both Last.fm and eHarmony issued separate statements confirming that some user passwords may have been compromised in the recent hacker attack.

You're not a rookie on the Internet anymore so it's inexcusable to lock down your online accounts with weaksauce passwords. We're sure your girlfriend's fly, but using her name as a password is a poor security practice, and so is using any of the commonly recognized passwords out there, like 123456 and iloveyou, to name just two. If you're serious about security, you're using multiple passwords that are difficult to guess, which can also be difficult to remember. Symantec wants to help.