Website Security Without Breaking the Bank?

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 9, 2009 @06:28PM from the man-who-is-his-own-lawyer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I do my own Web design and have a few websites — MySQL, PHP, CSS, HTML, that kind of thing. It's simple, amateur stuff, but I would love to have some reasonable ways to assess their security myself and patch the big holes, or possibly enlist someone to do 'white hat' work to assist me. I have absolutely no idea how to proceed. I don't want to get mired in a never-ending paranoia-fueled race to patch holes before the hackers find them, but on the other hand, I don't want my websites to look like Swiss cheese. Right now, I wouldn't know what kind of cheese they look like: Swiss, Havarti, or hard as Parmesan. How can I take reasonable steps to protect these websites myself? What books has the community found useful? What groups (if any) can offer me inexpensive white-hat hacking that won't end up costing me a first-born child? Or am I better off just waiting until a problem arises and then fixing it?"

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Well, for starters... by Xenna · 2009-02-09 18:32 · Score: 5, Funny

What's the URL? ;)
Attack with all your might .. by cheros · 2009-02-09 18:47 · Score: 5, Funny

http://127.0.0.1/
Enjoy.

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1. Re:Attack with all your might .. by sumdumass · 2009-02-09 19:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Wow, I didn't know so much porn could be so free.
  Some of the models look a little young though, are you sure they are all legal at that site?
  Anyways, thanks for the tip.