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25 dangerous programming errors made public

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

In an effort to improve cybersecurity, experts and professionals from more than 30 organizations teamed up to reveal a list of some the most dangerous programming errors that are usually employed by cybercriminals for security breaches.

The Department of Homeland Security and National Security Agency were included in the group of organizations that provided information for the list many security managers hope will assist in combating cybercrime, SCMagazineus.com reports.

Included on the list was input validation and output encoding, two vulnerabilities that could be used to launch SQL injection attacks, which were involved in more than 1.5 million website breaches last year, according to the website.

The list of 25 errors was broken down into three categories: insecure interaction between components (nine reported mistakes), risky resource management (nine) and porous defenses (seven), states the article.

Security officials told the news provider the list was revealing, especially since many computer science programs do not teach secure coding, which makes some of the mistakes listed unknown to some programmers.

New York State has stated it will use the list to update their "standard procurement language" and hopes its security will benefit from the list.ADNFCR-1765-ID-18970635-ADNFCR

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