The way that Yahoo! was hacked, SQL Injection attack, is the same method as many other hacks in the news recently: SQL Injection. SQL Injection attacks are common for the following reasons: • The ...

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In the last couple of years, SQL injection attacks have become the favorite tactic of pentration testers, cyber criminals and script kiddies alike. But some researchers are taking the technique to a ...

SQL injection exploits may soon be as common as those targeting Windows and Unix flaws, experts say. An estimated 60% of Web applications that use dynamic content are likely vulnerable, with ...

Daniel Cid, a developer of a cloud-based firewall/proxy system, was surprised to discover that his product was blocking requests from Google-owned IP addresses. This was unusual, because few websites ...

This week’s disclosure that the huge data thefts at Heartland Payment Systems and other retailers resulted from SQL injection attacks could finally push retailers into paying serious attention to Web ...

Cybercriminals use SQL injection to target both external websites and internal databases when seeking data for identity theft and other black market activities, GreenSQL said. Public websites are ...

This week’s disclosure that the huge data thefts at Heartland Payment Systems and other retailers resulted from SQL injection attacks could finally push retailers to pay serious attention to Web ...

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 ...

Eric Daigle, a computer scientist and white hat hacker, has revealed in a blog post how he exploited a vulnerability in a spyware app for Android devices called 'Catwatchful' to gain access to ...