A clever hacker decided to see if he could defeat the system by using SQL Injection… The basic premise of this hack is that the hacker has created a simple SQL statement which will hopefully ...

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 ...

We’ll touch on XSS in a later article. For now, we’re going to stick to the basics – proper passwords and SQL Injection. Cracking passwords consists of using common phrases and brute force ...

Along with cross-site scripting (see XSS), SQL injection is used to break into websites and extract data or embed malicious code. See buffer overflow. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

The concept of an injection attack is not new. Security researchers have known about SQL injection, for example, which can execute a harmful SQL statement when asking for user input if it's not ...

It was discovered that the intrusion used a SQL injection vulnerability that had existed in PostgreSQL for more than nine years but had gone unnoticed, as software engineer Nick Agliano wrote in ...

“I have reviewed some of the data around the attack and my guess would be that the attackers used an SQL injection for at least part of the attack,” said Amichai Shulman, co-founder and CTO of Imperva ...