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 ...

— -- Cybercriminals are spreading invisible infections far and wide across the Internet by hammering hundreds of thousands of websites each day with so-called SQL injection attacks. The trend ...

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My colleague Paul Baccas from SophosLabs has blogged about a number of webpages on news websites that have been infected by an SQL Injection attack designed to install malware onto users’ computers.

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 I've one out of date extension, and last Monday after Super Bowl, something took the site down.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 ...

According to Michael Perone, Barracuda's executive vice president, the attack occurred when the company's web application firewall was accidentally set in passive monitoring mode during a weekend ...

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. Hundreds of pages ...

A woman recently lost her life savings due to an AI deepfake scam featuring “General Hospital” star Steve Burton. The companies relaxed some safeguards around their AI models to let their competitors ...

The Honeynet Project, a non-profit organization that develops open-source security research tools, has created a component for the Glastopf Web application honeypot software that can emulate ...

According to the Associated Press, the hacker is thought to originate from Romania and had posted details of his/her exploits to Twitter over the weekend. The site was taken down – apparently by the ...