April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
The security of data should always be kept in mind while writing application code. For example, HTML pages and scripts that sends information to and from the cloud servers should not have sensitive information in the comments of the code. Hackers can easily exploit this information by scrutinizing these HTML scripts.
The programming language itself can be a vulnerable due to the lack of security mechanisms that it provides. For example, the C language cannot detect improper memory allocation, cannot do garbage collection, and so on. It is the programmer's responsibility to make sure that memory is allocated properly and freed up when not required. It is due to this that languages such as Java and C++ 11 have become popular. ...