Mitigating SQL injection attacks requires secure coding practices. Developers should use parameterized queries and prepared statements to ensure user inputs are never executed as SQL code.

But mainstream database APIs offer a better way of working with SQL—better both because it isn't prone to SQL injection attacks, and better because it can have slightly superior performance, too.

[Excerpted from "SQL Injection: A Major Threat to Data Security", a new report published today in Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] Every time you turn around these days, it seems ...

The point of an SQL Injection attack is to compromise a database, which is an organized collection of data and supporting data structures. The data can include user names, passwords, text, etc.

Oracle updated its Database Firewall with policies that can help administrators fight off SQL injection attacks. The new release offers support for MySQL databases and new compliance reports.

As part of its Secure by Design initiative, CISA urged companies to redouble efforts to quash SQL injection vulnerabilities. Here's how.

An important aspect of database security is designing your applications to avoid SQL injection attacks. SQL injection is a form of web hacking whereby SQL statements are specified in the fields of a ...

How to protect your database from SQL injection, data theft, rogue users, and well-meaning meddlers without tying your environment in knots Like so much of IT, database security requirements ...

Some of them include SQL injection, file inclusion, cookie-poisoning, and XSS that provides ways to obtain optimal results. A web application firewall allows you to monitor and filter the HTTP ...

From this point, an attacker would go on to use SQL statements to figure out how many columns are in the database, and then start exploiting it. Preventing SQL Injection Attacks ...