SQL injection is the most common penetration technique employed by hackers to steal valuable information from corporate databases. Yet, as widespread as this method of attack is, a seemingly infinite ...

A SQL injection scanner/hunter tool, SQL Poizon takes advantage of search engine "dorks" to trawl the Internet for sites with SQL injection vulnerabilities. The tool has a built-in browser and ...

Undoubtedly, SQL injection is the favorite tool of hackers, and this is quite evident from some recent incidents. Before discussing those incidents in details, let’s dig deeper on the ‘Why’ part. SQL ...

Microsoft has released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks. The free application, called UrlScan ...

The prevalence and intensity of SQL injection attacks are increasing, according to Imperva's Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) report. The report details how attacks are executed and how hackers ...

A critical vulnerability in the Cacti Web-based open source framework for monitoring network performance gives attackers a way to disclose Cacti's entire database contents — presenting a prickly risk ...

As Scott explains, PHP’s simplicity can also be its undoing. With just a few inputs structured as SQL queries, a third party can end up retrieving, altering, or deleting the entire database. So much ...

Oracle’s MySQL.com customer website was apparently compromised over the weekend by a pair of hackers who publicly posted usernames, and in some cases passwords, of the site’s users. Taking credit for ...

A vulnerability in a web-based graphics system led to a breach of The Wall Street Journal’s network by a hacker, the newspaper acknowledged late Tuesday. The system was taken offline, and the ...