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 ...
Thirty-one-year-old Laurie Love is currently staring down the possibility of 99 years in prison. Love was recently told he'll face extradition to the US, where he stands accused of attacking systems ...
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 ...
Security researchers have developed a generic technique for SQL injection that bypasses multiple web application firewalls (WAFs). At the core of the issue was WAF vendors failing to add support for ...
Drupal is a very widely used open-source content management system. It initially was released in 2001, and recent statistics show Drupal as the third-most popular content management system, with just ...
— -- 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 ...
Oracle’s MySQL.com customer website was apparently compromised over the weekend by a pair of hackers who publicly posted usernames, and in some cases passwords, of the site’s users. Taking credit for ...
In a recent blog post, Daniel Cid, CTO of Securi, a company that provides website security monitoring and related services, published details of a recent SQL Injection (SQLi) attempt. That in itself ...
On Dec. 26, 2007, Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old resident of Miami, launched an attack against the database servers of Heartland Payment Systems, kicking off one of the most successful computer crimes ...