SQL injection attacks do pose a significant risk to unprotected database-driven web applications. However, with careful coding and the use of input validation, web developers can protect their ...

SQL Injection Attack: What is it, and how to prevent it. 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 isn't because of poor requirements, except so far as the requirements left off "Don't Include SQL Injection Bugs". SQL Injection comes from bad design, not poor requirements.

Imperva, the data security specialist - who monitor websites for hacker activities, - said the the police portal appears to be vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. SQL injection attacks - aka SQL ...

SQL injection has been called the biggest vulnerability in the history of mankind from a potential data loss perspective. Cross-site scripting comes in as a close second.

However, until last week, it lacked the capability of emulating SQL injection vulnerabilities, an important class of Web application vulnerabilities that are commonly targeted by attackers.

For the first five months of 2008 IBM ISS helped large corporations block about 5,000 SQL attacks a day. By mid-June, daily attacks spiked to 25,000; by October they topped 450,000 a day.

SQL injection attacks exist at the opposite end of the complexity spectrum from buffer overflows, the subject of our last in-depth security analysis.

The huge data thefts at Heartland Payment Systems and other retailers resulted from SQL injection attacks and could finally push retailers to deal with Web application security flaws.

Understand and protect your business's website from malicious SQL injection attacks.