Last month, Sony released information to the public about a massive breach on their networks, resulting in 75 million user accounts worth of information exposed, including my own. I am a PS3 owner, and a soon-to-be canceller of my PSN account (when it comes back online, that is).

Working with websites, content management systems, and secure data, you get to see your fair share of passwords. Over the years we have educated customers about why their passwords need to be better than 'password' or 'bill' and should be hard to guess. Using a service like GoodPassword will help you generate a more secure password with random letters, case, numbers, and symbols. Of course, its not going to generate the kind of password you will be able to remember (which is a good thing).

Drupal has won best open source PHP Content Management System for the second year in a row in the Packt Publishing 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. Drupal won by popular vote and a critical selection by a panel of judges. This award reflects the strong support of the Drupal community and the Drupal associations focus on quality which leads to critical acclaim and rapid adoption for large, high quality projects. Drupal won best overall open source CMS in 2007 and 2008.