[FX.php List] PCI Compliance for FMS and OS X Server

Malcolm Fitzgerald malcolm at notyourhomework.net
Thu Jun 27 07:54:44 MDT 2013


On 27/06/2013, at 11:35 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
> I hired a consultant to help me go through my code, and after spending a grand on him (I won't mention the company by name, but we all know it extremely well), I saw that the ONLY thing he did was to add this to every $_POST:
> 
> htmlspecialchars($_POST['myvar']))



Cleansing your input is a must. If that's what they did you've spent the money well. You're better off than you were before they visited.

malcolm
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