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How do small businesses handle web app security?

Everything on Owasp's top 10 list, how do current small businesses (< 1000 employees) handle web application security, along with mobile security of their applications? Do they care about info/app ...
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What indicators did OWASP use to end up with OWASP Top 10?

I was asked by a student how OWASP Top 10 are ranked, based on which indicators: is it severity? ease of exploit? ease of implementing their countermeasures? ... Knowing that each of these ...
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Safely changing text links to HTML anchors

I'm trying to change text links to real anchors. So for example I want to change http://example.com to <a href="http://example.com">http://example.com</a>. Since this is a user given ...
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Should CSRF 'Double Submit Cookie' technique have a different seed value for the cookie versus the HTTP POST?

I'm reading about the OWASP double submit cookies method of protection and there it states that the cookie value between the header and form should match. That seems to be somewhat of a risk, as the ...
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Can anybody explain XSS to an idiot?

That idiot being me, of course. I work programming Enterprise Java applications and do very little web development in 2002. I'm interested in security and like to read articles about it. However, I ...
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Whitelisting DOM elements to defeat XSS

As we know, developers are responsible for correctly escaping/validating data provided by the user before rendering or storing them. However, we must agree that it's relatively easy to forget a single ...
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What is the correct way to implement anti-CSRF form tokens?

I am fully aware of CSRF and have already implemented some safe forms, but I have never been happy with the results yet. I've created tokens as a md5 of username, form info and a salt and stored it ...