Software makes our lives easier every day; it simplifies things in an astonishing way, but unfortunately, errors have always been their biggest sin. Hackers who can detect these programming errors can basically take over an entire computer, and if that computer is connected to the Defense Department, things can get very serious.

 The national Security Agency has started a campaign focusing on revealing the most dangerous programming errors and through this they hope that the Defense department’s purchase of software will improve. They also expect from vendors to improve the quality of their programs, making them more hacker-resistant and more reliable.

The National Security Agency believes that this step was necessary as software is being used more and more often, being basically everywhere. Exposing the most dangerous programming errors will be a good reply to cyber espionage and cyber crime.

 Experts from more than 30 U.S. and international cybersecurity organizations plan to disclose the 25 most dangerous programming errors on Monday, at a media event in Washington, D.C. These programming errors, basically, fall into three categories: Insecure Interaction Between Components, Risky Resource Management and Porous Defenses. Help was asked from Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat and Symantec.

By publicizing these common programming errors, the participating organizations hope to make software code, and by extension the nation's cyber infrastructure, more secure. Just two of these errors led to more than 1.5 million security breaches in 2008, according to the groups.

This is a great initiative and it should be supported by everyone, because the world is now mainly controlled by computers, and those computers need to remain safe.