This is quotation from the Techrepublic's article:
Dec 16, 2002 | Brien M. Posey MCSE
Staying up to date
If your company uses applications that were developed in-house, the best recommendation that I can make is to keep your applications—and your developers’ skills—up to date.
To see why this is so important, consider this. One of my consulting clients uses several in-house applications. These apps are little more than front-end applications to Fox Pro databases. The problem is that the company is using an ancient version of Fox Pro. Further complicating the situation is the fact that everyone at the company has read and write access to the directory containing the database.
Because of this, it would be easy for anyone with a little computer experience to hack the database and possibly extract sensitive data or modify critical information, such as salaries, within the database.
So what can this company do to prevent its extreme vulnerability? For starters, it could migrate its database to something more current and secure, like SQL 2000. The company should also look at recoding the front-end application in Visual Studio .NET. Visual Studio .NET allows developers to integrate operating system-level security into the applications they write. By staying up to date, they could avoid a lot of security problems.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=t01820021216pos01.htm&src=searchI think, I have to say something against this accusation - because it is getting as a rule - to use FoxPro as a negative example for illustrating author's thinks... What I can write in comments to this article? Or to keep silence again - is a better position?
