For more than a decade, injection vulnerabilities have literally topped the charts of critically dangerous software flaws, deemed more serious than all other types of vulnerabilities in the 2010, 2013 ...

Several high-profile hacks over the past year including those at Heartland, Hannaford Bros., and 7-11, all have had one thing in common: they were launched with a SQL injection attack. Cross-site ...

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A vulnerability in the Ally WordPress plugin exposes over 200,000 websites to sensitive information disclosure via SQL queries.

Security researchers have developed a generic technique for SQL injection that bypasses multiple web application firewalls (WAFs). At the core of the issue was WAF vendors failing to add support for ...

Security researchers have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a critical vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) software, which is now actively exploited ...

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 ...