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Securing PHP Applications Part III – Securing PHP on the server / Securing MySQL and Apache

Hi there. This is the last part of this tutorial where I tell you a few things about securing PHP on the server, about securing MySQL and Apache.
OBS: If you don’t administer your own server, this information will be useful to you while shopping for a Web host, so you better continue reading.
Before starting this [...]

Securing PHP Applications Part II – Securing PHP code

5. SQL injections
What is it?
This type of attack is one of the most common attacks. SQL injections occur after two failures of the part of developers: failure to filter data as it enters the application (filter input) and failure to escape data as it is sent to the database (escape output). For example, let’s suppose we [...]