"Study Links Flawed Online Tutorials with Vulnerable Open Source Software"

A study conducted by German researchers reveal the correlation between the emergence of security vulnerabilities when developers copy and paste code into open source software, specifically if the code originates from flawed online tutorials. Though this study only focused on PHP code for Web projects, this discovery still brings attention to a serious problem within the open source community. This article further discusses how researchers demonstrated this finding as well as the tools they developed for this study. 

ADTmag reports "Study Links Flawed Online Tutorials with Vulnerable Open Source Software"