SQL injection has become perhaps the most widely used technique for compromising Web applications, thanks to both its relative simplicity and high success rate. It’s not often that outsiders get a ...

Thirty-one-year-old Laurie Love is currently staring down the possibility of 99 years in prison. Love was recently told he’ll face extradition to the US, where he stands accused of attacking systems ...

Many web-facing enterprise applications have databases sitting behind them. For many of those, the application itself is little more than a snazzy user interface sitting on top of a database. And in ...

SQL injection attacks have been going on for years, and the vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques are well-understood and widely discussed. However, they’re still quite prevalent and are used in ...

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. SQL injection attacks have been around for more than 10 years. Database security experts know they ...

The way that Yahoo! was hacked, SQL Injection attack, is the same method as many other hacks in the news recently: SQL Injection. SQL Injection attacks are common for the following reasons: • The ...

Today's exponential increase in attack volume and complexity can largely be chalked up to the cybercriminal's creed of working smarter, not harder. It isn't so much l33t hackers toiling at code for ...

With millions of personal records and payment card information stolen on a regular basis, several recently released reports independently confirm some of the main sources of breaches. Not surprisingly ...

Multiple organisations are now coming forward to disclose that they have been affected by cyber attacks originating via a recently disclosed vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit file transfer ...

A massive effort should be launched to downvote or outright remove answers that suggest string concatenation of SQL statements from places like StackOverflow and other forums.