The single most common database security inquiry I get is, "What's this whole stored procedure parameter thing, and how does it help with SQL injection?"With the Albert Gonzales hearings under way, ...

PHP is a very handy — and widespread — Web programming language. But as Tom Scott demonstrates in the video below, it’s also quite vulnerable to a basic SQL injection attack that could give a hacker ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Year after year, in study after study, SQL injection is ...

Typical speed camera traps have built-in OCR software that is used to recognize license plates. A clever hacker decided to see if he could defeat the system by using SQL Injection… The basic premise ...

According to Michael Perone, Barracuda's executive vice president, the attack occurred when the company's web application firewall was accidentally set in passive monitoring mode during a weekend ...

Microsoft has released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks. The free application, called UrlScan ...

Scrawlr is the latest tool to come out of HP’s Web Security Research Group. It was built in response to the massive number of SQL injection attacks happening on the web this year. Most of these ...

— -- Cybercriminals are spreading invisible infections far and wide across the Internet by hammering hundreds of thousands of websites each day with so-called SQL injection attacks. The trend ...

This week’s disclosure that the huge data thefts at Heartland Payment Systems and other retailers resulted from SQL injection attacks could finally push retailers to pay serious attention to Web ...

Eric Daigle, a computer scientist and white hat hacker, has revealed in a blog post how he exploited a vulnerability in a spyware app for Android devices called 'Catwatchful' to gain access to ...