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The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (softpedia.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the prepared-to-not-be-surprised dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Veracode has put together a report after static analysis of over 200,000 apps, and its results show that Classic ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP generated the most security bugs in scanned applications. Ignoring the first two, which are almost extinct languages, PHP, used for Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress (which recently announced it runs a quarter of the Internet) is the programming language with the most security woes.

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  1. Are all ten of them Java? by NotDrWho · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just wondering.

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