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.

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 ...

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 ...

In order for SQL injection to succeed, the application code used by the website must be vulnerable to an injection attack. SQL injection relies upon programs that do not adequately filter for string ...

F-Secure found evidence of yet another massive round of infected Web sites on Thursday, all compromised by SQL injection attacks. Many pundits in the blogosphere were quick to blame Microsoft IIS ...

Although there has been a new IIS vulnerability disclosed in recent weeks, the attacks are only making use of poor site and database maintenance practices - using SQL injection to exploit sites.

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 ...

An entry on the Windows Server Division WebLog notes that "SQL injection attacks target Web application code, not Web server code, so they can only be avoided by making sure that any Web ...

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.

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