Each year, the SANS Institute and MITRE's Common Weakness Evaluation (CWE) project team up to create a list of the most dangerous software errors. The 2011 edition has just been released with SQL injection followed by OS command injection topping the list. "The Top 25 list is a tool for education and awareness to help programmers to prevent the kinds of vulnerabilities that plague the software industry, by identifying and avoiding all-too-common mistakes that occur before software is even shipped. Software customers can use the same list to help them to ask for more secure software. Researchers in software security can use the Top 25 to focus on a narrow but important subset of all known security weaknesses. Finally, software managers and CIOs can use the Top 25 list as a measuring stick of progress in their efforts to secure their software."

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