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Top 25 Security Programming Errors

interesting. Most of the security problems are generated by web developers 😀 when will they learn.

(Also, great to know the old fuse talk the number 1 problem, Cross-site Scripting)
 
I don't really understand how a race condition will do anything but eventually deadlock a program.

Granted, the one point that people often forget in IT Security is that the goal is a disruption of service. Whether that be the dangerous "I have control of your computer" or the "Your computer has crashed and your data is destroyed", they are still the point of malicious code.

-Kevin
 
Gamingphreek said:
I don't really understand how a race condition will do anything but eventually deadlock a program.

Granted, the one point that people often forget in IT Security is that the goal is a disruption of service. Whether that be the dangerous "I have control of your computer" or the "Your computer has crashed and your data is destroyed", they are still the point of malicious code.

-Kevin
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Though, race conditions are pretty hard to invoke from the client side. They are rather unpredictable.
 
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