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 ...

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SQL injection can be perpetrated against any website that uses a relational database as a back-end. Oracle and MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server are all equally vulnerable when the website ...

— -- 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 ...

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 I've one out of date extension, and last Monday after Super Bowl, something took the site down.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

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.

Three years after the United Nations' website was defaced by activist hackers using a SQL injection attack, the site still contains multiple instances of these vulnerabilities. Security researcher ...

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 ...

Oracle’s MySQL.com customer website was apparently compromised over the weekend by a pair of hackers who publicly posted usernames, and in some cases passwords, of the site’s users. Taking credit for ...

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 ...

The SQL injection attack this week on the Sony PlayStation website is a high-profile example of what continues to be a rampant number of legitimate websites falling victims to insecure coding, ...