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 ...

A Structured Query Language (or SQL) injection attack was listed as the third-most critical safety risk to organizations by the OWASP Top 10 and is still a threat to 21% of organizations, costing ...

One recent example is the attack on a Yahoo site that resulted in a breach of 450,000 usernames and passwords. In this video, Ryan O’Boyle of Veracode discusses the nature of SQL injection ...

Too often, he said, attackers are able to take advantage of unpatched software, system configuration failures, compromised passwords and well-known attack methods such as SQL injection. “Cyber ...