Copycat coders create 'vulnerable' apps

guest · Oct 7, 2019

Copycat coders create 'vulnerable' apps
Lazy developers who copy solutions to tricky programming problems are creating apps that are vulnerable to attack
October 7, 2019
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49960387

A team of computer scientists looked at more than 72,000 chunks of code found on the Stack Overflow website.

The site is popular with developers seeking advice on the best way to fix broken code.
But researchers found many of the most copied snippets lacked basic checks that would stop common attacks.
Security risks
The most widely used insecure code blocks turned up in more than 2,800 separate projects on the Github website, they found.

"The people who are using Stack Overflow, they shouldn't trust it fully," said Prof Ashkan Sami, a computer scientist at Shiraz University in Iran who co-wrote the study.
"It's better for programmers to do it the hard way and learn secure coding," he told The Register tech news site.
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Research: An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples

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