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 ...

SQL injection attacks already stand as one of the most effective means hackers use to break into enterprise database infrastructures today. Now the attack could get a boost in effectiveness when a ...

On average, Web applications see 71 attempted SQL injection attacks per hour. But during attack peaks, Web applications can see 1,300 unique attacks per hour. Those findings come from security vendor ...

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. A group of ...

We now live in a data-driven world, where information is the core of business systems. Just last year, analyst firm IDC predicted that we would consume 1.8 zettabytes of information each year, and the ...

An important aspect of database security is designing your applications to avoid SQL injection attacks. SQL injection is a form of web hacking whereby SQL statements are specified in the fields of a ...

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 ...

A group of hackers used SQL injection techniques to steal huge amounts of data from Heartland Payment Systems Inc., TJX Companies Inc. and other businesses, according to court papers filed in ...