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 ...

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 ...

I've got a website that's running Joomla 1.5. I've one out of date extension, and last Monday after Super Bowl, something took the site down. I tried to repair the SQL infection, but I oviously didn't ...

According to a report on the CyberInsecure website, among the many organizations that use SQL injections vulnerable service, there were some US military bases that could have all their staff's ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his/her posting, the cybervandal, left a message of: "Ur security sucks UK police this is my revenge against u." "U are the one who are blasting bomb in Pakistan. Ur security is zero". the posting ...

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 ...

— -- 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 ...

On Dec. 26, 2007, Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old resident of Miami, launched an attack against the database servers of Heartland Payment Systems, kicking off one of the most successful computer crimes ...