{"id":2310,"date":"2003-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/11\/19\/hackers-needle-out-web-data\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:41:03","slug":"hackers-needle-out-web-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/11\/19\/hackers-needle-out-web-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers needle out web data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALMOST three-quarters of all corporate applications supporting online transactions are wide open to &#8220;structured query language&#8221; hacking, according to Australian security firm B-sec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its research suggests 72 per cent of Australia&#8217;s leading companies are vulnerable to an &#8220;SQL injection attack&#8221; that gives the attacker unrestricted access to the corporate database.  The SQL attack occurs when a hacker adds code to a standard URL address that tricks the application into giving access to stored information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the vulnerability is so widespread, then the only possible explanation is that there&#8217;s a flaw in corporate governance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The risk of web-based application attacks is commonly known in the IT industry, as are simple, publicly available measures to prevent such attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>B-sec security consultant Justin Derry said SQL injection stood out as the No.1 concern in recent security assessments.<\/p>\n<p>More info: [url=http:\/\/australianit.news.com.au\/articles\/0,7204,7916529%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html]http:\/\/australianit.news.com.au\/articles\/0,7204,7916529%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html[\/url]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}