SQL injection

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2015
More than 1 Million WordPress websites are vulnerable to blind SQL Injection Attacks

A security bug in the WordPress plugin WP-Slimstat could be exploited by attackers to discover a “secret” key and use it to run blind SQL Injections. More than one million WordPress sites are potentially vulnerable to SQL injection attacks due to the presence of a critical flaw in the popular plugin WP-Slimstat. WP-Slimstat is an analytics plugin for […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2014
Drupal community under attack due to a critical SQL injection flaw

A security advisory issued by Drupal assumes that every installation of the popular CMS based in the version 7.x was compromised unless patched. Earlier this month, Drupal patched a critical SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2014-3704) that exists in all Drupal core 7.x versions up to the recently-released 7.32 version, which fixed the issue. There is an emergency in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2014
WAAR report – Web Attacks continue to increase, especially those launched from Amazon servers

The WAAR report issued by Imperva states that Web Attacks increasingly launched from Amazon servers, the overall number of attacks is also increasing. Cloud computing is considered an amazing opportunity for cybercrime, from the perspective of an attacher these powerful architectures have the necessary resources to conduct powerful attacks, and consider also that often the data archived in […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2014
Yahoo Contributors Network affected by Blind & Time Based SQL Injection flaws

Yahoo! Contributors Network was affected by a serious Time based Blind SQL Injection vulnerability which allows the theft of sensitive data. The Yahoo! Contributors Network allows writers to submit articles, videos, it also allows contributors to receive assignments from Yahoo related various domains like Sports and Finance. The security researcher Behrouz Sadeghipour reported to that The Yahoo! Contributors Network (contributor.yahoo.com) is […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2014
Yahoo SQL Injection flaw allows Remote Code Execution and privileges scalation

The Egyptian hacker Ebrahim Hegazy has discovered a critical Yahoo SQL Injection flaw exploitable to Remote Code Execution and privilege escalation. My readers know very well the Egyptian hacker Ebrahim Hegazy, he is a great security expert and a friend of mine, which disclosed numerous critical flaws in most popular web services, including Microsoft, Yahoo and Orange. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2014
Nice Recording eXpress lawful intercept solution is flawed

Researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered that Nice Recording eXpress lawful intercept software contains numerous flaws, including a backdoor. Nice Recording eXpress voice-recording package software used by law enforcement to intercept communications of suspects under investigation contains various flaws, this is the discovery of security researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab. The researchers have recently published an […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2014
Ponemon study – SQL Injection attacks too dangerous for organizations

A new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute reveals the impact of successfully SQL injection attacks on organizations during the last year. The Ponemon Institute published a new study titled “The SQL Injection Threat Study“ to understand the reply of organizations to the SQL injection threat. The study is sponsored by DB Networks, its Chairman and CEO Brett Helm used the following […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2014
Flickr affected by critical SQL Injection and Remote Code Execution bugs

The security expert Ibrahim Raafat discovered critical SQL injection vulnerabilities in Flickr Photo Books which allow attackers to gain complete control of the server and its database. The giant of online photo management and sharing Flickr, a Yahoo-owned company, was affected by critical vulnerabilities which allow attackers to gain access to the webserver website database. The alarming discovery […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2013
German researcher found remote code execution flaw on EBay subdomain

The German security researcher David Vieira-Kurz discovered a critical vulnerability in the Ebay website that allows an attacker a remote code execution. The German security researcher David Vieira-Kurz discovered a critical vulnerability in the official Ebay website in particular in its sub domain http://sea.ebay.com that allows an attacker a remote code execution. It’s not the first time […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2013
Mobile apps security study conducted by HP Fortify

A study conducted by company’s enterprise security arm HP Fortify revealed that the majority of  mobile apps based on iOS is vulnerable. The company’s enterprise security arm HP Fortify conducted a series of tests on mobile apps that produced concerning results, almost every app is vulnerable. Mike Armistead, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Security […]