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5 Development Mistakes that Can Lead to Security Breaches

Despite all the attention on the need to write secure code, vulnerabilities continue to show up in applications. How does it happen? InfoWorld put together a list of five coding practices that can compromise security:

  1. Trusting third-party code that can’t be trusted.
  2. Hard-coding passwords and backdoor accounts.
  3. Failing to check inputs.
  4. Not securing your data.
  5. Ignoring layer 8 (the human factor).

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