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Why are Wordpress sites so easily hacked? [closed]
I have found that hacker can easily hack wordpress site.
I have found this posts related to wordpress site hacking.
1) http://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-hacked-3
2) ...
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Methodology for software facing internet connections? [closed]
Is there a known methodology stronger than TDD to prevent accepting invalid input and performing undesired behaviour for software that is going to be open to the internet at large (e.g., HTTP ...
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J2EE - Field level Role-based security for a complete web application [closed]
I have a complex website designed using Spring MVC and MyBatis. User Interface is very complex and we have lot of custom made widgets - calenders, lists, graphs etc.
If we were to implement field ...
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How frequent should the Token Updation in CSRF security be?
To start with the background, this post is what Jeff Atwood says about CSRF tokens. In this very page, he goes on to say:
An even stronger, albeit more complex, prevention method is to
leverage ...
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How does using #define for loop and condition bounds in C increase security?
My program uses the following define statements:
#define LOWEST_PATIENT_ID 10000
#define HIGHEST_PATIENT_ID 99999
#define LOWEST_CRITICAL_STATUS 1
#define HIGHEST_CRITICAL_STATUS 100
used in this ...
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What's a good way to prepare for this course titled “Programming Language Security”?
I have a course with the following description:
The purpose of this course is the study of programming language security features and languages designed to support it explicitly. Static and ...
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Is using ELSE bad programming? [closed]
I've often come across bugs that have been caused by using the ELSE construct. A prime example is something along the lines of:
If (passwordCheck() == false){
displayMessage();
}else{
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