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Briefly mention Prepared Statements and Input Validation as the gold standards for defense.

Web security is often a game of "hide and seek" with data. One of the oldest and most effective tricks in a hacker's book is SQL Injection. But what do those strange strings of numbers and dashes actually do? -7226') UNION ALL SELECT 34,34,34#

In SQL, this comments out the rest of the original query, making sure the "injected" part runs without errors. Briefly mention Prepared Statements and Input Validation as