Secure SQL Server from SQL injection attacks

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

SQL injection attacks are probably the most common way for hackers to strike Internet-facing SQL Server databases. No matter how secure your network is or how many firewalls you have in place, any application that uses dynamic SQL and allows for unchecked user input to be passed to the database ...

Xpath Injection

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Yesterday I wrote a quick proposal for the Synapse project. Since not everyone has access to the Synapse project, I will share some ideas here from time to time. I started with a proposal on how to detect Xpath vulnerabilities. Since Xpath can be used in combination with every server-side ...

New tools to block and eradicate SQL injection

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The MSRC released an advisory today that discusses the recent SQL injection attacks and announces three new tools to help identify and block these types of vulnerabilities. The advisory discusses the new tools, the purpose of each, and the way each complements the others. The goal of this blog post is ...

XSS Methods Also Seen Being Used in Mass Compromises

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Very Much Alive and Kicking We were about to investigate further on malicious activities related to banner82(dot)com/b.js but the URL was already inaccessible around Tuesday. Soon enough the malicious script in www(dot)adw95(dot)com caught our interest. A rough survey of the sites compromised by this script reveal that the ...

sqlninja 0.2.3 released - Advanced Automated SQL Injection Tool for MS-SQL

Friday, May 30th, 2008

We’ve been folowing the development of sqlninja since the early days, it’s growing into a well matured and more polished tool with advanced features. Sqlninja is a tool written in PERL to exploit SQL Injection vulnerabilities on a web application that uses Microsoft SQL Server as its back-end. Its main goal ...