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 ...

Security practitioners are increasingly bent on better code security, as Microsoft SDL, BSIMM and Rugged demonstrate. Here's how it became Priority 1 for one of the nation's largest energy providers.

Mass web compromises have typically redirected visitors to a handful of central malware sites, but a peer-to-peer approach will make mass attack more pernicious. Massive website compromises using a ...

Users of a widely used firewall from Sophos have been under a zero-day attack that was designed to steal usernames, cryptographically protected passwords, and other sensitive data, officials with the ...

A slew of cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerabilities that affect several network management system (NMS) products has been uncovered. Security firm Rapid7 has released details ...

The huge data thefts at Heartland Payment Systems and other retailers resulted from SQL injection attacks and could finally push retailers to deal with Web application security flaws. This week’s ...

F-Secure found evidence of yet another massive round of infected Web sites on Thursday, all compromised by SQL injection attacks. Many pundits in the blogosphere were quick to blame Microsoft IIS ...

In April, the number of web attacks rose sharply, and Microsoft was quickly blamed for the problems. The software giant investigated and concluded that security groups had jumped to conclusions and ...

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 ...

As SQL development increasingly becomes part of full-stack workflows, developers are looking for ways to simplify their tooling without compromising capability. While SQL Server Management Studio ...