From the course: PHP: Creating Secure Websites
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What is security? - PHP Tutorial
From the course: PHP: Creating Secure Websites
What is security?
- [Instructor] Before we dive into learning how to secure our PHP code, let's first talk about what security is. For web development, security means keeping your web server and its applications protected or safe from harm. Who are we trying to protect it from? Well, mostly hackers. Now it's important to clarify that the term hacker does not have to have a negative meaning. Hackers can also be good guys. There are people who like to tinker with things and try to modify them to build something new. But those aren't the hackers we need to protect our code from. We're going to be concerned with the kind of hacker who has malicious intentions. They want to break into our site to get private data. They may want a free subscription to your service or to harvest email addresses and credit card numbers or maybe they want to take control of your web server so that it can do their bidding. There are many security issues associated…
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