Even if all precautions have been taken to prevent SQL Injection attacks, as laid out in theOWASP website, it is still wise to be able to detect if an attempted attack is taking place, and it is essential to know if such an attack is successful. There are several stra...
An SQL Injection vulnerability may affect any website or web application that uses an SQL database such as MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, or others. Criminals may use it to gain unauthorized access to your sensitive data: customer information, personal data, trade secrets, intellectual property, and...
Therefore, there is no way around software security testing solutions that can reliably detect SQL injections. In this blog, I will discuss the role of application security testing in keeping these incessant attacks at bay, as well as some best practices for your test setup. But first, let's...
How can you detect an SQL injection vulnerability? Imagine walking up to the information desk at a busy airport and, before you can ask about your flight, someone else interjects with a question of their own. It’s annoying and rude, but it’s not dangerous. When cybercriminals do ...
2. How Applications Become Vulnerable to SQL Injection? Injection attacks work because, for many applications, the only way to execute a given computation is to dynamically generate code that is in turn run by another system or component. If in the process of generating this code we use untrus...
SQL injection is a security flaw that enables attackers to meddle with an application’s database queries. It usually involves slipping harmful SQL statements into places where users can input data, which can then be executed. This risk has long posed a considerable threat to web security. ...
Bright helps automate the detection and remediation of many vulnerabilities including SQL Injection, early in the development process. By shifting DAST scans left in the development pipeline and integrating them into the SDLC, developers and application security professionals can detect vulnerabilities early...
Use avulnerability scannerthat can detect bothSQL Injection Payloadsand Blind SQL injection vulnerabilities. Run regular scans to identify any new bugs which may not have been identified or prevented as per the above or that may be introduced moving forward. Include the security scan in your softwa...
SQL protocol is designed to rely on intensive communication between the client and SQL Server. It as a very talkative protocol where the client can create a series of requests to the database, each request must wait for the response on the previous one before it can be...
Exploits using SQL injection have drawn a lot of attention for their ability to get through firewalls and intrusion detection systems to compromise your data layers. Whether it's a first-order or second-order injection, if you look at the basic code pattern, it is similar to any other inject...