If your eyes glazed over at the recent announcement of an “SQL injection” vulnerability in WordPress, take heart. You’re not alone. SQL injection attacks are a common kind of security flaw, but are ...

Digging into how sites and web content management systems are most often hacked, and what you can do to reduce the risk of it happening to you. (Editor's note: This story has been updated.) We hear ...

According to Michael Perone, Barracuda's executive vice president, the attack occurred when the company's web application firewall was accidentally set in passive monitoring mode during a weekend ...

Typical speed camera traps have built-in OCR software that is used to recognize license plates. A clever hacker decided to see if he could defeat the system by using SQL Injection… The basic premise ...

Joomla pushed out version 3.2.3 of its product last week, fixing a SQL injection zero day vulnerability that could have let attackers exploit sites running the CMS. The open-source content management ...

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 ...

The Magento content management system used by thousands of online shops has received fixes for several serious vulnerabilities, including an unauthenticated SQL injection flaw that’s likely to soon ...

In a recent blog post, Daniel Cid, CTO of Securi, a company that provides website security monitoring and related services, published details of a recent SQL Injection (SQLi) attempt. That in itself ...

Daniel Cid, a developer of a cloud-based firewall/proxy system, was surprised to discover that his product was blocking requests from Google-owned IP addresses. This was unusual, because few websites ...