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Top-Ranked Programming Web Tutorials Introduce Vulnerabilities Into Software

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 23 2017, @08:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the then-again-it's-PHP dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Researchers have checked 64,000+ GitHub projects, and found 117 vulnerabilities introduced through the use of code from popular programming tutorials.

Things like this are why I would never hire a professional programmer without an online portfolio of source code to check for Blatant Stupidity.

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/04/21/programming-tutorials-vulnerabilities/

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 23 2017, @11:21PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday April 23 2017, @11:21PM (#498579) Journal

    PHB demands, PHB gets what he asked for. He and his customers shall be happy! ;-)

    So the question becomes how to detect corporations with these kinds of management. Oracle and Microsoft seems at least to be two examples.

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