Are men more likely to choose unsafe passwords? The first thing about password security is to have different passwords for different accounts. It's easy to remember just the one password but if someone finds that out they have access to your digital life. Despite men's greater number of gadgets and files opening them up to the possibility of more attacks, the company's survey also found that men were less worried about computer security than women - with 42 per cent of men admitting to worrying about being hacked compared to 48 per cent of women. So what should we avoid when setting these different passwords across our devices and profiles? While Mr Samani thinks those that would choose 123456 as a password are beyond help, for the rest of us he suggests avoiding other obvious options like a football team, partner's name, dog's name, or mum's maiden name. It might seem like a good idea to go with that sort of memorable information, but it's also the sort of thing you'll put up on social media - and if someone's trying to target you specifically that's where they will go. It's better to think about an obscure word, then change a couple of the letters to numbers and put an exclamation mark at the end or something. You need to mix up characters because there's something called a dictionary attack where they can run a dictionary against your password, and if it's a real word it will match. Other experts advice people to use 'passphrases' rather than passwords, taking the first letter of each word in a memorable sentence to create a non-sensical code. For example, 'In the summer of 2010 I moved to Paris' becomes Itso2010imtP. Samani also suggests more research should be done into how men and women choose their passwords. If knowing someone's gender would help a hacker crack a password, then that's something it would be worth finding out more about. The most popular passwords of 2013 in full: