Many web-facing enterprise applications have databases sitting behind them. For many of those, the application itself is little more than a snazzy user interface sitting on top of a database. And in ...

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 ...

A massive effort should be launched to downvote or outright remove answers that suggest string concatenation of SQL statements from places like StackOverflow and other forums.

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. Few things terrify IT security ...

Today's exponential increase in attack volume and complexity can largely be chalked up to the cybercriminal's creed of working smarter, not harder. It isn't so much l33t hackers toiling at code for ...

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 ...

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. SQL injection attacks have been around for more than 10 years. Database security experts know they ...

So, in catching up with blogs after vacation, I went and had a peak at Michael Howard's web log, and was glad to see another post from him. His posts are very insightful (I just wish he would post ...

Three popular WordPress plugins with tens of thousands of active installations are vulnerable to high-severity or critical SQL injection vulnerabilities, with proof-of-concept exploits now publicly ...