32 Security
Nine out of ten websites (allegedly) have security vulnerabilities. This chapter helps you to avoid security gaps as much as possible.
A common opinion says that the biggest uncertainty factor for a web application is the operating system or the web server software (or the server-side technology). Unfortunately, this is wrong. Web servers and operating systems are maintained by their manufacturers, and security vulnerabilities are closed—sometimes faster, sometimes slower. New versions of server technologies, especially PHP, are also released regularly. For example, around four weeks after PHP 8.3.0, a bug-fixed version 8.3.1 was released, followed by PHP 8.3.2 around four weeks later. At the end of November 2024, new releases with ...
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