An exploit that takes advantage of database query software that does not thoroughly test the query statement for correctness. Along with cross-site scripting (see XSS), SQL injection is used to break ...

Immortalized by “Little Bobby Drop Tables” in XKCD 327, SQL injection (SQLi) was first discovered in 1998, yet continues to plague web applications across the internet. Even the OWASP Top Ten lists ...

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 ...

In response to this, the application security SaaS company Indusface has detailed the potential financial impact of SQL Injection attacks on businesses. Additionally, they offer best practices to help ...

Autumn is an associate editorial director and a contributor to BizTech Magazine. She covers trends and tech in retail, energy & utilities, financial services and nonprofit sectors. But what are SQL ...

The Magento content management system used by thousands of online shops has received fixes for several serious vulnerabilities, including an unauthenticated SQL injection flaw that’s likely to soon ...

SQL injection attacks have become the most reliable way for hackers to gain access to valuable data on back-end systems, with many high-profile Web sites falling victim to the technique over the last ...

Joomla pushed out version 3.2.3 of its product last week, fixing a SQL injection zero day vulnerability that could have let attackers exploit sites running the CMS. The open-source content management ...

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SQL injection attacks are becoming significantly more popular amongst hackers, according to recent data. Between Q1 2012 and Q2 2012, there has been an estimated 69 percent increase of this attack ...

Typical speed camera traps have built-in OCR software that is used to recognize license plates. A clever hacker decided to see if he could defeat the system by using SQL Injection… The basic premise ...