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 SQL injection (SQLi) is a technique that allows an attacker to execute SQL statements in an entry field. This technique was used with great success by the Lulzsec hackers.

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.

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

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 ...

The problem is SQL injection. The very short form of the description is that the attacker finds a data-driven Web site where forms are used to provide data to a back-end program (such as a Perl ...

DB Networks claims to have unprecedented SQL injection accuracy, which the vendor attributed to its behavioral-based approach. “When an attack gets to us and we see it, it is unobfuscated ...

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.

Today, Sophos disclosed that a SQL injection vulnerability was fixed in the Cyberoam (CROS) operating system that could remotely add accounts to a CROS device.