An important aspect of database security is designing your applications to avoid SQL injection attacks. SQL injection is a form of web hacking whereby SQL statements are specified in the fields of a ...

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 ...

SQL injection attacks are among the oldest exploits against web applications, dating back more than a decade. Sadly, despite the fact that it is fairly easy to defend against these injection attacks, ...

While there are a number of security risks in the world of electronic commerce, SQL injection is one of the most common Web site attack techniques used to steal customer data such as credit card ...

[The following is excerpted from "Anatomy Of A SQL Injection Attack," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] It started with a vulnerability on a password ...

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 ...

After having spent the last two weeks in Asia I find myself sitting in a hotel room in Tokyo pondering something. I delivered a few talks in Singapore and in Manila and was struck by the fact that ...

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 ...

The security community is divided about the recent arrest of a security researcher who hacked into the website for the elections division of a county in Florida. The question is whether he deserved to ...

A new tool is making the rounds on the criminal underground. Called Katyusha Scanner, this is a hybrid between a classic SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability scanner and Anarchi Scanner, an open-source ...