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The latest high trafficked web site to fall victim into the continuing waves of massive SQL injection attacks courtesy of copycats and the ASProx botnet, is Sony's PlayStation U.S site according to a ...
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According to IBM X-Force's report, SQL injection gained a lot of popularity as a flavour of the month and was then exploited to the point that there were few who didn't know what it was. And, says the ...
In an attempt to mitigate the impact of the recent waves of SQL injection attacks, and provide more transparency into the approximate number of affected pages, the Shadowserver Foundation is starting ...
A threat group named 'ResumeLooters' has stolen the personal data of over two million job seekers after compromising 65 legitimate job listing and retail sites using SQL injection and cross-site ...
If your eyes glazed over at the recent announcement of an “SQL injection” vulnerability in WordPress, take heart. You’re not alone. SQL injection attacks are a common kind of security flaw, but are ...
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. This week’s ...
Thirty-one-year-old Laurie Love is currently staring down the possibility of 99 years in prison. Love was recently told he'll face extradition to the US, where he stands accused of attacking systems ...
Data relating to 8.3 million users of stock-image sites Freepik and Flaticon, both owned by Freepik Co. S.L., have been stolen through an SQL injection attack. The data stolen included the email ...
Microsoft's UK site was hacked last week by SQL injection, a situation first reported by Zone-h. The attack consisted of inserting a rogue page with with three images, among them a boy waving a Saudi ...