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Posted in PHP apps: security's low-hanging fruit
Posted Friday 12th January 2007 16:40 GMT
Anonymous Coward
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PHP Security Guide

PHP application security is a total mess. For fun one night I jumped on Source Forge and looked for PHP apps with remote exploits. I found a remotely exploitable hole in the first application I downloaded. I was so disgusted I ended up writing a guide for newbies to avoid some common security mistakes.

https://linuxfreak.us/wordpress/writing-secure-code-in-php/

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