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 ...

Code scanning tools analyze memory handling operations to spot insecure practices, such as unchecked array indices, unsafe copying functions, or insufficient buffer allocation. Preventing buffer ...

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.

Fortinet patched a critical vulnerability in its FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) software that can allow attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable servers. A threat ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, a large scale SQL Injection attack dubbed LizaMoon, referencing one of the domain names used in the attack, surfaced. This attack targets websites by injecting code that redirects visitors ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...