The good news: Developers are becoming increasingly aware of the threat posed by SQL injection attacks and the pitfalls of leaving pre vulnerable to such attacks. The bad news: there are other types ...

On the heels of a dramatic rise in SQL injection attacks linked to drive-by malware downloads, Microsoft has released aimed at helping Webmasters and IT administrators block and eradicate this attack ...

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 ...

The Joomla CMS project released today Joomla 3.7.1 to fix an SQL injection flaw that allows attackers to execute custom SQL code on affected systems and take over vulnerable sites. Sucuri analyst Marc ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is warning users of a zero-day vulnerability discovered in SQL Server, and that exploits of the flaw have already been published. The software giant yesterday issued a security advisory ...

The WordPress online course plugin 'LearnPress' was vulnerable to multiple critical-severity flaws, including pre-auth SQL injection and local file inclusion. LearnPress is a learning management ...

Because many embedded systems have not historically been connected to networks, or since it was reasonable to expect that the devices would operate in a trusted environment, there’s been relatively ...

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, ...