MySQL.com, the official website of the database management system of the same name, was today subjected to an attack whereby hackers used SQL injection exploits to gain access to a complete list of ...

Oracle’s MySQL.com customer Web site was compromised over the weekend by a pair of hackers who publicly posted usernames, and in some cases passwords, of the site’s users. Taking credit for the hack ...

Taking credit for the hack were “TinKode” and “Ne0h,” who wrote that the hack resulted from a SQL injection attack that they did not provide further details on. The vulnerable domains were listed as ...

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I have been assigned a small project that requires a Perl front end via CGI and a MySQL back end with a simple database. The database has basic names, addresses, and some flags to tell whether someone ...

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 ...

MySQL AB has laid out its software road map through 2009, including some code contributed by Google and security improvements that are due in MySQL 7.0. Earlier this year Google signed a Contributor ...

A new tool is making the rounds on the criminal underground. Called Katyusha Scanner, this is a hybrid between a classic SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability scanner and Anarchi Scanner, an open-source ...

My SQL AB has laid out its software road map through 2009, including some code contributed by Google Inc. and security improvements that are due in MySQL 7.0. Earlier this year Google signed a ...