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.

Since the consequences of SQL injection attacks can be so damaging, I asked Michael Sabo of DB Networks about best practices that companies can follow in order to reduce their risk of this threat.

T-SQL Smarts -- Preventing Injection Attacks Working with dynamic SQL is all well and good, but avoid the risks that can lead to your code being susceptible to a SQL injection attack.

Structured Query Language (SQL) injection is an attack technique that attempts to subvert the relationship between a Web page and its supporting database, typically in order to trick the database into ...

Dark Reading reported on Dec. 10 that a massive SQL injection attack had reached 132,000 sites, infecting Web sites with code that installed backdoor Trojans.

SQL injection has become perhaps the most widely used technique for compromising Web applications, thanks to both its relative simplicity and high success rate. It’s not often that outsiders get ...

In SQL injection attacks, malicious hackers can take advantage of poorly coded Web application software to introduce malicious code into a company’s systems and network. The vulnerability exists ...

While there are a number of security risks in the world of electronic commerce, SQL injection is one of the most common Web site attack techniques used to steal customer data such as credit card ...

SQL injection attacks have been the bread and butter of system crackers since the first SQL database became Web-enabled. Here, the Channel Test Center offers a step-by-step strategy for blocking them.

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 ...