With so many modern-day applications driven by data and easily accessible via the web, SQL injection vulnerabilities have become widespread and exploited simply by criminals. In the first quarter of 2019 alone, the UKFast Threat Monitoring service detected nearly 30,000 SQL injection attempts on our clients' servers. On a global scale, this type of cyber-attack affects millions of organisations every single day. Any data-driven applications employing an SQL database are potential targets, so what can you do to protect them? What are SQL injection attacks? Hackers craft a malicious SQL statement into input fields for execution by the underlying SQL…
