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Bots Use SQL Injection Tool in New Web Attack

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 ...

Even if a 200 is returned, it cannot be called a success: Reflections on determining actual damage from 9,671 SQL injection attempts

In the logs of a domestic site we analyzed, SQL injection was the category with the largest numbers. There were 9,671 ...
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SQL Injection Remains Scary Back-Door Security Threat

I got onto the subject of SQL injection thanks to Intel software blogger Kenneth Graf, who caught my attention with a post provocatively entitled, "Your password is ...

[Database Edition 05] What is SQL Injection? A Critical Vulnerability You Cannot Afford to Ignore

We live in an era where AI writes programs for us.Using tools like Cloud Code or Codex, it has become easy to create processes that retrieve information from databases.However, just because a program ...
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Third Wave of Web Attacks Not the Last

Researchers say the latest wave of Web hacks is related but more sophisticated -- and may have spawned copycat attacks. David Dewey, manager of IBM ISS X-Force Research, says the latest round of SQL ...
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Hackers exploit SQL injection flaw to steal patient data from Polish medical software provider

Hackers stole patient data from Qbusoft, a Polish medical software maker, weeks after a breach at another provider exposed records of nearly 19 million people in the country. The data comes from Medyc ...