I would say it depends where they graduated from and how high their GPA was. I don't know that any language is any more secure than any other, but most of these sites nowadays that get hacked are written in PHP. Java is a viable option as is ASP, ASP.net, C. sharp, and a few others. PHP is the most popular these days, which may be why more time is spent trying to hack into it.

But again, I think you'll find fewer problems and bugs if you go with some prefab solution. We put up something like this ourselves recently, and that's what we did. You can see it by clicking the image in my signature.