Development and Technology

Passwords

Alternatives to LastPass

Alternatives to LastPass

LastPass has been my go-to password manager for as long as I can remember. Longer than I can remember, really. I know I have an invoice from them from 2013, so I've been a user for their product for at least 7 years. I have also previously paid

Cula.io limiting password lengths

Cula.io limiting password lengths

Following my post on why passwords shouldn't be limited in length [https://www.garybell.co.uk/disk-space-is-cheap-data-breaches-are-not/], I have decided to name and shame some services as I find them when they limit password lengths. The first one on the list is Cula.io, which is a free

Disk space is cheap, data breaches are not!

Disk space is cheap, data breaches are not!

Many, many years ago (way back in 2015), I wrote an article about keeping data secure [https://www.garybell.co.uk/keeping-data-secure/]. A few things have changed since then, most notably the introduction of GDPR in the EU. You can't have been anywhere near a computer in the

Developers still lack security know-how

Earlier this week I was looking into RESTFUL web services and how to create them, so I set myself a small project. The idea was to do something very basic, but that could be useful for someone rather than just a proof of concept. i had no real direction. With

Keeping data secure

Following the news this week [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/18/welsh_police_abuse_case_data_breach/] that South Wales Police have been hit with a fine of £160,000 for not reporting missing data for two years, I got thinking about the importance of keeping data secure.