Hiring Cheap Web Dev? Expect Security Issues

[Icy]

While it shouldn't be much surprise, here is just an article talking about outsourced apps having a significant increase in security is.

http://news.techworld.com/security/...minefield-study-finds/?cmpid=sbfacebookrplant

You get what you pay for..

 

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[longview]

Yeah.. it can happen anywhere.
It all depends on who you hire... you can have a rogue internal hire too.

It's either down to trust or code review.

 

[longview]

on a sort of related note..

Here is an article on the security concerns of open source (as opposed to outsourced) code, for the recently released diaspora (social network).


http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/09/22/security-lessons-learned-from-the-diaspora-launch/