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.

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 ...

SQL injection has become perhaps the most widely used technique for compromising Web applications, thanks to both its relative simplicity and high success rate. It’s not often that outsiders get ...

Immortalized by “Little Bobby Drop Tables” in XKCD 327, SQL injection (SQLi) was first discovered in 1998, yet continues to plague web applications across the internet. Even the OWASP Top Ten ...

SQL injection has been a major security risk since the early days of the internet. Find out what's at risk, and how cybersecurity pros can defend their organizations.

The number of SQL injection attacks has jumped by more than two thirds: from 277,770 in Q1 2012 to 469,983 in Q2 2012. This may be what hackers are using to steal all those e-mail addresses and ...

SQL injection attacks have been around for a long time, and they remain a major security risk. This ebook explains where the dangers lie and what you can do to protect your organization from these ...

SQL injection was also the attack vector in the recent hack of Chinese toy company VTE, in which the personal information of some 4.8 million parents and 200,000 children were stolen from the ...

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 ...

Without SQL’s gift for entering databases simply and swiftly, SQL injection attacks wouldn’t pose as much of a threat. Easily exploited by threat actors, SQL injections are limited not by the size or ...

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 ...