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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A little-known botnet has put a different spin on the recent wave of SQL injection attacks on thousands of Websites: It’s outfitting its bots with its own tool to launch SQL injection attacks on ...

Security researchers SecurityBridge, who notified SAP after finding the flaw, described as a “missing input sanitation” ...

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 ...

The prevalence and intensity of SQL injection attacks are increasing, according to Imperva's Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) report. The report details how attacks are executed and how hackers ...

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 ...

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 ...