PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit

PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit
Kelly Martin, 2007-01-08

PHP has become the most popular application language on the web, but common security mistakes by developers are giving PHP a bad name. Here's how PHP coding errors have become the new low-hanging fruit for attackers, contributing to the phishing problems on the web.

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PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2007-01-09
ninjah (1 replies)

Re: PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2007-01-11
rdivilbiss

PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2007-01-09
Anonymous

PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2007-01-09
Anonymous (2 replies)

Re: PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2007-01-10
Anonymous

Re: PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2007-01-11
Josef Meixner

Don't forget basic file system security 2007-01-09
Void (1 replies)

Re: Don't forget basic file system security 2007-11-03
Catalin Hulea

PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2007-01-10
andyT

PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2007-01-11
Anonymous (2 replies)

Re: PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2007-01-11
Anonymous

Re: PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2007-11-03
Catalin Hulea

Unfortunately there are a lot of hosting services that turn that setting ON, again, because... let me give you this example: a webdesign company thinks to start with PHP; in the beginning they don't know security and they produce 20 sites that are crap.

Later on, they learn not to make the same mistakes again and the following 50 sites avoid SOME security holes. But in the same time, they cannot turn register_globals OFF because the first 20 would crash and they are not smart enough to fix them... And the entire server must comply both with the first 20 crap and with the next 50.

Despite the fact I think PHP is the most secure language for web, this setting with register_globals was not a good idea... I was not supposed to exist even since the beginning.

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PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2007-01-11
Anonymous

PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2007-01-12
Kevin Waterson

Don't blame PHP, it's the newbies 2007-11-03
Catalin Hulea

PHP apps: Security's Low-Hanging Fruit 2008-02-12
Anonymous