For the first five months of 2008 IBM ISS helped large corporations block about 5,000 SQL attacks a day. By mid-June, daily attacks spiked to 25,000; by October they topped 450,000 a day.

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.

Thousands of Web sites in China and Taiwan have been hit by a large-scale SQL injection attack that has placed malware on thousands of Web sites, according to a security company in Taiwan.

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 ...

Sophos experts have discovered that the website of BusinessWeek, the world famous weekly magazine, has been attacked by hackers in an attempt to infect the readership with malware.

SQL injection attacks are among the oldest exploits against web applications, dating back more than a decade. Sadly, despite the fact that it is fairly easy to defend against these injection attacks, ...

SQL injection attacks do pose a significant risk to unprotected database-driven web applications. However, with careful coding and the use of input validation, web developers can protect their ...

SQL injection attacks up 69% The number of SQL injection attacks has jumped by more than two thirds: from 277,770 in Q1 2012 to 469,983 in Q2 2012.

Web sites across China and Taiwan are being hit by a mass SQL injection attack that has implanted malware in thousands of Web sites, according to a security company in Taiwan. First detected on ...