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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. Re:Are all ten of them Java? by tompaulco · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just wondering.

    Java is the 4th highest, with about 2% of the flaws found being Java. I'm really shocked that Java shows up higher on the list than Javascript. If ever there was a language where people copy and paste somebodiy's working code and try to mangle it to work for their own purposes with no understanding of the actual language or security thereof, it is Javascript.

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