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 ...

A hacker reportedly exploited a SQL injection vulnerability on the Website of Britain’s Royal Navy, according to media reports. The incident took place Nov. 5, when a hacker known by the alias TinKode ...

Anytime a value is placed on something, one has to note that at some point in time others may want it. Not only will someone want it, but someone might use covert methods to obtain it. This of course ...

SQL injections top plenty of lists as the most prevalent means of attacking front-end Web applications and back-end databases to compromise data. "One of the reasons we're seeing such an increase in ...

— -- 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 ...

The Honeynet Project, a non-profit organization that develops open-source security research tools, has created a component for the Glastopf Web application honeypot software that can emulate ...

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 ...

Web systems are designed to be simple and reliable. Designing for the everyday person is the goal, but if you don’t consider the odd man out, they may encounter some problems. This is the everyday ...

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 ...