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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 darkfeline on Tuesday April 25 2017, @03:26AM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Tuesday April 25 2017, @03:26AM (#499138) Homepage

    This study was done for PHP repositories. In other words, this is not news. PHP practically encourages you to format strings using user input and use their broken password hashing implementations.

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