Friday, February 27, 2009

Know Your Top 25 Programming Errors (Or Else)

From DICE, February 27, 2009...

Writing perfectly coded software, with no errors and never a security vulnerability? It’s never going to happen. Accordingly, it pays to know which errors are the worst, and to ensure - for starters - they aren’t hiding in your code.

To help, 30 experts on information security have assembled a list of the top 25 most dangerous programming errors, According to the SANS Institute, “just two of the 25 errors on the list, improper input validation and improper output encoding, are responsible for more than 1.5 million security breaches in 2008.”

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