Developer's Guide to Web Application Security

numbers and stole 263,000. It was such a major security breach that

CardSystems nearly went out of business (and was eventually purchased by

PayByTouch), and inspired the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on

Financial Services to hold hearings on the security of credit card data processing.

Languages for Writing CGI Scripts

As mentioned early in this chapter, CGI isn’t a language, but a method of passing

data from a user’s browser to a Web server, and then to an application. Once

received, results may then be passed back through CGI. Numerous languages can be

used to create CGI scripts and programs. Each of these has various benefits, draw-

backs, ...