Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. On Dec. 26, 2007, Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old resident of Miami, launched an attack against the ...

Thus far, SQL injection has focused on altering data within the database, rather than attacking the underlying operating system. But researcher Bernardo Damele Assumpcao Guimaraes will be upgrading ...

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, ...

An important aspect of database security is designing your applications to avoid SQL injection attacks. SQL injection is a form of web hacking whereby SQL statements are specified in the fields of a ...

Many web-facing enterprise applications have databases sitting behind them. For many of those, the application itself is little more than a snazzy user interface sitting on top of a database. And in ...

Hackers are attempting to hide SQL injection commands by disguising the data as a string of numbers. The latest technique has been used to compromise as many as a million webpages in the early part of ...