The point of an SQL Injection attack is to compromise a database, which is an organized collection of data and supporting data structures. The data can include user names, passwords, text, etc.

While different security researchers may haggle over the exact ranking of SQL injection attacks compared to other common maladies, such as XSS and CSRF, few would deny that SQLi and its other ...

The study revealed that about 41% of all SQLi attacks originated from just 10 hosts, conforming to the pattern of a small number of sources being responsible for a majority of attacks. Detect SQL ...

More than 50,000 webpages have been compromised in an SQL injection attack that has been dubbed Lizamoon.Security firm Websense Inc. has been tracking the attack since it first appeared on March 29.

The attack patterns are so chosen so that SQL Meta characters that appear in a legal input are not filtered out. Subscribe to the Data Insider Newsletter ...

A Structured Query Language (or SQL) injection attack was listed as the third-most critical safety risk to organizations by the OWASP Top 10 and is still a threat to 21% of organizations, costing ...

Sentrigo announces new technique to combat zero-day SQL injection attacks on databases TechTarget and Informa Tech’s Digital Business Combine. TechTarget and Informa ...

Note that versions 1.7.8.2 and above are not vulnerable unless running modules or custom code that itself includes a SQL injection vulnerability. “The attack requires the shop to be vulnerable ...

Initial access to the MS-SQL server occurred through a brute-force attack targeting the “sa” account (SQL Administrator), which was compromised within an hour of deployment. The attacker persisted in ...