Firms overlook security when outsourcing software development

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Frequent hacking victims all outsource a portion of their programming, says research

Hacking risks are higher when coding is outsourced, survey suggests Companies that say they are frequently hacked all outsource part of their software programming, and 90 per cent of them outsour...

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