SQL Injection Attack: What is it, and how to prevent it. The way that Yahoo! was hacked, SQL Injection attack, is the same method as many other hacks in the news recently: SQL Injection.

This is a method to attack web applications that have a data repository. The attacker would send a specially crafted SQL, or structured query language, statement that is designed to cause some ...

Last but not least, is Verizon's 2009 Anatomy of a Data Breach Report, according to which malware and SQL injections were the main sources of the data breaches, as well as responsible for the ...

Open source e-commerce platform PrestaShop warns thousands of small retailers that their customers’ credit card details may be at risk of compromise.

Researchers say a bug let them add fake pilots to rosters used for TSA checks TSA security could be easily bypassed by using a simple SQL injection technique, say security researchers.

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 ...