GIGAZINE

SQL injection vulnerability in PostgreSQL went undiscovered for over nine years and was used to break into the US Treasury Department

On December 30, 2024, a 'Chinese government-sponsored advanced persistent threat actor' breached a system managing confidential data for the U.S. Treasury Department. It was discovered that the ...
ZDNet

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. SQL Injection attacks are common for the following reasons: • The ...
CSOonline

What is SQL injection? How these attacks work and how to prevent them

Immortalized by “Little Bobby Drop Tables” in XKCD 327, SQL injection (SQLi) was first discovered in 1998, yet continues to plague web applications across the internet. Even the OWASP Top Ten lists ...
Searchenginejournal.com

WP Google Maps Plugin Vulnerable to SQL Injection Exploit

A high priority update was issued by WP Google Maps WordPress plugin to fix a vulnerability. The plugin could allow a malicious hacker to take control of a website. It is highly recommended that users ...
Linux Journal

Drupageddon: SQL Injection, Database Abstraction and Hundreds of Thousands of Web Sites

Drupal is a very widely used open-source content management system. It initially was released in 2001, and recent statistics show Drupal as the third-most popular content management system, with just ...