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 ...

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 ...

The security community is divided about the recent arrest of a security researcher who hacked into the website for the elections division of a county in Florida. The question is whether he deserved to ...

The way that Yahoo! was hacked, SQL Injection attack, is the same method as many other hacks in the news recently: SQL Injection. SQL Injection attacks are common for the following reasons: • The ...

SQL is a convenient way to manage and query your data, but badly written queries can tie up your database. Here are seven common SQL traps and how to avoid them. Database developers have it tough.

A critical vulnerability in the Cacti Web-based open source framework for monitoring network performance gives attackers a way to disclose Cacti's entire database contents — presenting a prickly risk ...