If you weren’t able to attend DrupalCon Paris at the beginning of the month, well… frankly, you’re not alone. Many of our Western counterparts didn’t make the trek to gay Paris. We didn’t go either, but we’ve decided to direct our effort away from being bitter about missing the show to bringing you some of the great updates from Drupal.

One of our favorite excepts is by Heine Deelstra. Mr. Deelstra is a member of the Drupal Security Team, and he has been a Drupal user for over 4 years. His presentation at DrupalCon focuses on securing Drupal code.

In an exceptionally thorough explanation of some of the biggest threats to Drupal users, Mr. Deelstra reveals the most prevalent and annoying hacker exploits. His presentation explores the cause for attacks like Access Bypass, SQL Injections, CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery), and XSS (Cross site Scripting). In summary:

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