Security News > 2017 > April > Top-ranked programming Web tutorials introduce vulnerabilities into software (Help Net Security)
2017-04-21 19:07
Researchers from several German universities have checked the PHP codebases of over 64,000 projects on GitHub, and found 117 vulnerabilities that they believe have been introduced through the use of code from popular but insufficiently reviewed tutorials. The process The researchers identified popular tutorials by inputing search terms such as “mysql tutorial”, “php search form”, “javascript echo user input”, etc. into Google Search. The first five results for each query were then manually reviewed and … More →
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