If your eyes glazed over at the recent announcement of an “SQL injection” vulnerability in WordPress, take heart. You’re not alone. SQL injection attacks are a common kind of security flaw, but are ...

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 ...

Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. On Dec. 26, 2007, Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old resident of Miami, launched an attack against the ...

Security researchers have developed a generic technique for SQL injection that bypasses multiple web application firewalls (WAFs). At the core of the issue was WAF vendors failing to add support for ...

— -- Cybercriminals are spreading invisible infections far and wide across the Internet by hammering hundreds of thousands of websites each day with so-called SQL injection attacks. The trend ...

The prevalence and intensity of SQL injection attacks are increasing, according to Imperva's Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) report. The report details how attacks are executed and how hackers ...

In a recent blog post, Daniel Cid, CTO of Securi, a company that provides website security monitoring and related services, published details of a recent SQL Injection (SQLi) attempt. That in itself ...

Oracle’s MySQL.com customer website was apparently compromised over the weekend by a pair of hackers who publicly posted usernames, and in some cases passwords, of the site’s users. Taking credit for ...

On Dec. 26, 2007, Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old resident of Miami, launched an attack against the database servers of Heartland Payment Systems, kicking off one of the most successful computer crimes ...