Everywhere I seem to look the last few days, security seems to be a major topic; I briefly read over the headlines from my Computerworld newsletter and Microsoft is patching a ’super nasty’ bug. I open up the daily 24hours newspaper, and a Virus has taken control of the Vancouver school board computers, resulting in a near lockdown of the entire system as technicians scramble to isolate and remove the infection. Even Paris Hilton’s website has been hacked and used to serve a malicious Trojan program.

It’s almost impossible to completely secure your site and/or applications, and it will almost always be a game of catch-up for those trying to prevent these attacks, but its important for users and programmers/developers to take the steps they can take to help prevent or limit their vulnerabilities. In line with that, the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), a community-developed dictionary of software weakness types, has released the top 25 most dangerous programming errors for 2009. Touted as a tool for educating and helping to eliminate common mistakes, the list can be used by developers, project managers, and CIOs as a measuring stick to gauge efforts in securing software and applications.

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