Hackers have started to target a critical severity vulnerability in the WP Automatic plugin for WordPress to create user accounts with administrative privileges and to plant backdoors for long-term ...

SQL injection has been a major security risk since the early days of the internet. Find out what’s at risk, and how cybersecurity pros can defend their organizations. Few things terrify IT security ...

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 ...

While different security researchers may haggle over the exact ranking of SQL injection attacks compared to other common maladies, such as XSS and CSRF, few would deny that SQLi and its other ...

After all of these years, SQL injection vulnerabilities still stand as an old reliable for attackers seeking to break into corporate databases. "SQL injection is still out there for one simple reason: ...

Thirty-one-year-old Laurie Love is currently staring down the possibility of 99 years in prison. Love was recently told he’ll face extradition to the US, where he stands accused of attacking systems ...