Security researchers have developed a generic technique for SQL injection that bypasses multiple web application firewalls (WAFs). At the core of the issue was WAF vendors failing to add support ...

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 ...

If the database and application aren’t properly secured, this SQL injection example could have devastating effects. The SQL Injection Cheat Sheet: Preventing an Attack. There are three main ways that ...

SQL injection is the most widely used attack vector for profession cyberthieves, but defense-in-depth security measures such as proper database configuration, secure coding within the Web ...

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 ...

In it, 65 percent of the respondents said that they’ve experienced one or more SQL Injection attacks in the last 12 months. In addition, each incident took an average of 140 days to discover ...

An important aspect of database security is designing your applications to avoid SQL injection attacks. SQL injection is a form of web hacking whereby SQL statements are specified in the fields of a ...

SQL injection attacks allow a malicious user potentially unlimited access to the content in your application’s database, no matter what security the application has tried to enforce.

SQL injection attacks are on the rise, overall, since valuable data is held within databases, said Paul Davie, founder and chief operating officer of Secerno, a security vendor that develops ...

Among the sites hit by the attack on Friday were SouFun.com, a real estate Web site, and Mycar168.com, a site for automobile enthusiasts. Mass SQL injection attacks have increasingly become a ...