PHP is a very handy — and widespread — Web programming language. But as Tom Scott demonstrates in the video below, it’s also quite vulnerable to a basic SQL injection attack that could give a hacker ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hackers have posted an email to the Full-Disclosure mailing list that describes the breach of numerous MySQL websites, along with information from MySQL's database, including usernames and passwords.