Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. On Dec. 26, 2007, Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old resident of Miami, launched an attack against the ...

[The following is excerpted from "Anatomy Of A SQL Injection Attack," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] It started with a vulnerability on a password ...

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 ...

For more than a decade, injection vulnerabilities have literally topped the charts of critically dangerous software flaws, deemed more serious than all other types of vulnerabilities in the 2010, 2013 ...

In response to this, the application security SaaS company Indusface has detailed the potential financial impact of SQL Injection attacks on businesses. Additionally, they offer best practices to help ...

Fortinet patched a critical vulnerability in its FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) software that can allow attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable servers. A threat ...

In April, the number of web attacks rose sharply, and Microsoft was quickly blamed for the problems. The software giant investigated and concluded that security groups had jumped to conclusions and ...

Thirty-one-year-old Laurie Love is currently staring down the possibility of 99 years in prison. Love was recently told he’ll face extradition to the US, where he stands accused of attacking systems ...

If your eyes glazed over at the recent announcement of an “SQL injection” vulnerability in WordPress, take heart. You’re not alone. SQL injection attacks are a common kind of security flaw, but are ...

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 ...