SQL injection attacks exist at the opposite end of the complexity spectrum from buffer overflows, the subject of our last in-depth security analysis.

SQL injection attacks have been going on for years, and the vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques are well-understood and widely discussed. However, they’re still quite prevalent and are ...

Q: How does SQL injection work? A: The way it works is very simple. An improperly programmed Web form can inadvertently allow data and executable code to get mixed up.

However, the problem of SQL Injection isn’t so small; in fact, this problem has existed since 1998. Part of the reason SQL Injection exists is because on the criminal’s end, it works.

SQL injection occurs when user-supplied input is not escaped properly when it is inserted into an SQL statement. Since single quotes (') are used to delimit string literals, proper handling is ...

Glastopf has been in development since 2009 and is currently at version 3. However, until last week, it lacked the capability of emulating SQL injection vulnerabilities, an important class of Web ...

Good summary of the problem. I thought I knew everything about SQL injection already, but 'blind' injection was a new one for me, and just highlights how any hole, no matter how small, can be ...