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Web application development security best practices

I am looking for the current, state of the art, coding standards for web development (mostly PHP). Since I do not want to reinvent the wheel I would like to reuse libraries written by people much ...
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What procedures or audits should be used to assess the security of a software system?

Are there any standardised security procedures or auditing techniques that can be used to assess the security of a piece of software? I'm specifically interested in auditing software written in Java, ...
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Are there languages that make it easier to understand secure coding principles?

I'm interested in expanding my knowledge of security issues: things like buffer overflows, format string vulnerabilities, etc. I'd like to be able to go through a language and understand its security ...