This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. SQL injection attacks have been around for more than 10 years. Database security experts know they ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm in the process of documenting the many ways in which an application is terrible. One of those ways is that it's vulnerable to SQL injection. It's not completely open, but you can manipulate a few ...

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has a program called 'KCM (Known Crewmember)' that allows pilots and flight attendants to pass security checks even when they are off. Similarly, there ...

SQL injection has been a major security risk since the early days of the internet. Find out what's at risk, and how cybersecurity pros can defend their organizations. Few things terrify IT security ...

Hundreds of thousands of URLs have been compromised—at the time of writing, 694,000—in an enormous and indiscriminate SQL injection attack. The attack has modified text stored in databases, with the ...

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 ...

The SQL Server team is unleashing the first widespread test builds of the next version of Microsoft's database, a k a ""="">). Earlier this year, Microsoft officials said to watch for a Community ...