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Top 10 Vulnerabilities in Web Applications

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 13, 2003 @05:55AM from the learning-from-the-mistakes-of-others dept.

sverrehu writes "The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has released a well-written document that is a must read for every web programmer out there. This security document is not about firewalls, encryption and patching. It's about common, highly exploitable errors made by the application programmers. Pick up your copy of "The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Vulnerabilities" from the OWASP web site."

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Re:Summary by mcmonkey · 2003-01-13 06:10 · Score: 3, Flamebait

In other words, "See last year's list." Last year's list=="See last year's list."

While this is stuff that matters, it certainly isn't news. Folks have been making the same sloppy mistakes and careless oversights since AOL was trading at $140/share. (And that's a long time ago.)

I cringe whenever I hear someone go on about how easy ecommerce is. Yeah, easy to screw up.