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SQL Injection Attack as a Threat of Web Portals

SQL Injection Attack as a Threat of Web Portals
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Author(s): Theodoros Tzouramanis (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 7
Source title: Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Arthur Tatnall (Victoria University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-989-2.ch157

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Abstract

SQL injection attack (CERT, 2002) is one of the most prevalent security problems faced by today’s security professionals. It is today the most common technique to indirectly attack Web-powered databases and disassemble effectively the secrecy, integrity and availability of Web portals. The basic idea behind this insidious and pervasive attack is that predefined logical expressions within a pre-defined query can be altered simply by injecting operations that always result in true or false statements. With this simple technique, the attacker can run arbitrary SQL queries and thus s/he can extract sensitive customer and order information from e-commerce applications, or she/he can bypass strong security mechanisms and compromise the back-end databases and the file system of the data server. Despite these threats, a surprisingly high number of systems on the internet are totally vulnerable to this attack.

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