The US National Security Agency has helped put together a list of the world’s most dangerous coding mistakes.
Experts from more than 30 US and international cyber security organizations jointly released the consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to security bugs and that enable cyber espionage and cyber crime. Shockingly, most of these errors are not well understood by programmers; their avoidance is not widely taught by computer science programs; and their presence is frequently not tested by organizations developing software for sale.
BBC news article lists the mistakes here – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7824939.stm
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