A little-known botnet has put a different spin on the recent wave of SQL injection attacks on thousands of Websites: It’s outfitting its bots with its own tool to launch SQL injection attacks on ...

Web sites across China and Taiwan are being hit by a mass SQL injection attack that has implanted malware in thousands of Web sites, according to a security company in Taiwan. First detected on May 13 ...

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 ...

A hacker successfully defaced a page on Microsoft Corp.’s U.K. Web site on Wednesday, resulting in the display of several images, including a photograph of a child waving the flag of Saudi Arabia.

A new malware script surfaced on Friday that used a SQL injection attack to infect about 1,000 web pages with a malicious iFrame. The attack was a variation on last week's robint-us SQL mass infection ...

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 ...

A hacker successfully attacked a Web page within Microsoft Corp.’s U.K. domain on Wednesday, resulting in the display of a photograph of a child waving the flag of Saudi Arabia. It was “unfortunate” ...

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 ...

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Researchers at Websense have dubbed the attack “LizaMoon” after the first domain victims were redirected to. Once on the redirected site, users were hit with a fake anti-virus scam. When ...