Archive for August 15th, 2009

Database Hacking Video Demonstration from Imperva: SQL Injection Attack via Direct Database Access

This is a continuation of multiple educational video demonstrations
related to Web application attacks, however this video is focused specifically on database security. This video looks at a Direct Database Access SQL Injection attack. In this attack a non-privileged user is able to exploit a vulnerability that existed in both Oracle 8i and 9i in which the malicious user could grant themselves DBA privileges. Read More

Many Computer Viruses Become Inert After 24 Hours

More than half of computer viruses last a mere 24 hours.

Panda Security’s malware detection laboratory, PandaLabs, has been analyzing the nearly 37,000 samples of new viruses, worms, Trojans and other security threats that it receives each day and found that 52 percent of them work for just 24 hours.
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