PHP is a very handy — and widespread — Web programming language. But as Tom Scott demonstrates in the video below, it’s also quite vulnerable to a basic SQL injection attack that could give a hacker ...

A new version of phpMyAdmin has been released to plug two serious security holes that could lead to SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks. According to an advisory from the maintainers of the ...

Typical speed camera traps have built-in OCR software that is used to recognize license plates. A clever hacker decided to see if he could defeat the system by using SQL Injection… The basic premise ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks. The free application, called UrlScan ...

In a recent blog post, Daniel Cid, CTO of Securi, a company that provides website security monitoring and related services, published details of a recent SQL Injection (SQLi) attempt. That in itself ...

— -- 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 ...

Eric Daigle, a computer scientist and white hat hacker, has revealed in a blog post how he exploited a vulnerability in a spyware app for Android devices called 'Catwatchful' to gain access to ...