http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/application-security/228300268/royal-navy-attack-stresses-sql-injection-dangers.html By Ericka Chickowski Contributing Writer Darkreading Nov 19, 2010 The danger of SQL injection last week hit the limelight once again when the British Royal Navy's website was shut down temporarily in response to an attack that had Royal Navy brass wondering whether the hack resulted in unauthorized access to sensitive back-end database files. Following investigation, the Royal Navy released a statement that "no malicious damage had been done" and that "access to this website did not give the hacker access to any classified information." But the attack was a splashy highlight to the dangers of SQL injections, which, according to the recently released Verizon Business 2010 Payment Card Industry Compliance Report, is the No. 2 most utilized threat action causing payment card breaches, just behind backdoors. In a report released by Cisco this week, the firm said SQL injections made up 36.86 of all events recorded by Cisco Remote Operations Services. "SQL injection is not caused by a vulnerability per se, but rather is due to the website [or] database administrator's failure to parameterize or properly escape characters and strings in SQL queries," says Mary Landesman, market intelligence manager at Cisco. "This allows attackers to submit a query that is acted upon as if it were an actual command to take some particular action against the database, rather than the expected query to just return the data intended." According to Jeromie Jackson, president of the San Diego OWASP chapter and a security trainer for developers, SQL injection attacks pose a big danger to back-end databases when combined with other simple attacks. [...] 5B ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Sun Nov 21 2010 - 23:34:58 PST
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