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In the last couple of years, SQL injection attacks have become the favorite tactic of pentration testers, cyber criminals and script kiddies alike. But some researchers are taking the technique to a ...

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 ...

SQL injection exploits may soon be as common as those targeting Windows and Unix flaws, experts say. An estimated 60% of Web applications that use dynamic content are likely vulnerable, with ...

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 ...

Daniel Cid, a developer of a cloud-based firewall/proxy system, was surprised to discover that his product was blocking requests from Google-owned IP addresses. This was unusual, because few websites ...

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 into paying serious attention to Web ...

SQL injection attacks are becoming significantly more popular amongst hackers, according to recent data. Between Q1 2012 and Q2 2012, there has been an estimated 69 percent increase of this attack ...

Hundreds of thousands of URLs have been compromised—at the time of writing, 694,000—in an enormous and indiscriminate SQL injection attack. The attack has modified text stored in databases, with the ...

MySQL.com, the official website of the database management system of the same name, was today subjected to an attack whereby hackers used SQL injection exploits to gain access to a complete list of ...