Immortalized by “Little Bobby Drop Tables” in XKCD 327, SQL injection (SQLi) was first discovered in 1998, yet continues to plague web applications across the internet. Even the OWASP Top Ten lists ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three years after the United Nations' website was defaced by activist hackers using a SQL injection attack, the site still contains multiple instances of these vulnerabilities. Security researcher ...

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 ...

Web systems are designed to be simple and reliable. Designing for the everyday person is the goal, but if you don’t consider the odd man out, they may encounter some problems. This is the everyday ...

I've got a website that's running Joomla 1.5. I've one out of date extension, and last Monday after Super Bowl, something took the site down. I tried to repair the SQL infection, but I oviously didn't ...

In his/her posting, the cybervandal, left a message of: "Ur security sucks UK police this is my revenge against u." "U are the one who are blasting bomb in Pakistan. Ur security is zero". the posting ...

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 ...