SQL Injection Attack: What is it, and how to prevent it. The way that Yahoo! was hacked, SQL Injection attack, is the same method as many other hacks in the news recently: SQL Injection.

Hundreds of thousands of URLs have been compromised—at the time of writing, 694,000—in an enormous and indiscriminate SQL injection attack. The attack has modified text stored in databases ...

While Forristal looked at Microsoft's software first, SQL injection was an industry-wide problem; sites using Java, PHP, ColdFusion, Ruby, and Python have all had SQL injection flaws.

SQL Injection SQL Injection involves entering SQL code into web forms, eg. login fields, or into the browser address field, to access and manipulate the database behind the site, system or ...

If your eyes glazed over at the recent announcement of an “SQL injection” vulnerability in WordPress, take heart. You’re not alone.

The Drupal 7 core is vulnerable to a "Highly Critical" SQL injection bug that could allow an attacker to compromise the site.

The huge data thefts at Heartland Payment Systems and other retailers resulted from SQL injection attacks and could finally push retailers to deal with Web application security flaws.

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 ...