Programming Errors Copied from Old Software to New Software

Programmers Are Copying Security Flaws Into Your Software, Researchers Warn

Many software developers are cribbing code, and its flaws, that someone else created. And the problem is only getting harder to keep up with.

Laura Hautala | June 23, 2015

...Programmers -- the people who create the software -- don't write all their code from scratch, instead borrowing freely from others' work. The problem: they're not vetting the code for security problems.

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