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 ...

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 ...

While different security researchers may haggle over the exact ranking of SQL injection attacks compared to other common maladies, such as XSS and CSRF, few would deny that SQLi and its other ...

The mass SQL injection attack that has been ongoing for a week or so now is designed mainly to steal credentials for online games and is quite well planned and organized, experts say. The mass SQL ...

On the heels of a dramatic rise in SQL injection attacks linked to drive-by malware downloads, Microsoft has released aimed at helping Webmasters and IT administrators block and eradicate this attack ...

A new malware script surfaced on Friday that used a SQL injection attack to infect about 1,000 web pages with a malicious iFrame. The attack was a variation on last week's robint-us SQL mass infection ...

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 attacks are common for the following reasons: • The ...

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 ...

Web sites across China and Taiwan are being hit by a mass SQL injection attack that has implanted malware in thousands of Web sites, according to a security company in Taiwan. Slideshow: SQL ...

More than 40,000 WordPress sites using the Quiz and Survey Master plugin have been affected by a SQL injection vulnerability that allowed authenticated users to interfere with database queries.