SQL Injection
Recently, Aim Higher College has seen several cases of sensitive information being stolen from a student information system and posted on the Web. After reviewing Web server and database logs, you believe that the source of the problem is a SQL injection vulnerability. The vulnerability appears to exist in a Web application used by students to register for courses. SQL injection is a technique where malicious users inject SQL commands into an SQL statement, via web page input. Injected SQL commands can alter SQL statement and compromise the security of a web application. SQL injection is one of the oldest, most prevalent and dangerous of web application vulnerability. I believe attackers could steal information by following methods. Most web pages have users or given user id to login, and original idea
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Some web developers use “blacklist” of words and characters, but some words like delete and semicolons should be allowed in many types of input. I think the best way to prevent is combination of protection. I would recommend to use SQL parameters. SQL parameters are values that are added to an SQL query at execution time, in a controlled manner. I would use patches and updates in exploited database and application as soon as possible. The firewall should be in place to help to filter out malicious data. Adding new rules regarding SQL injections to firewall will help to detect and patch. Also, use appropriate privileges and keep password hash and encrypted. Password should be change regularly, which overlook most of the time. In addition, I would not display a lot information about database architecture from error messages and use the “Remote Only” custom Errors mode, so external hacker will not get any additional information. After all, SQL injection is most popular tool for hackers to obtain and manipulate data, because it is easy to use. However, combination of the protections can keep secure and monitor
Aim Higher College needs to ensure the safety of all its information. Recently we have seen suspicious and careless activity in the research data center. Data center technicians have reported lights left on, doors left open, successful logins to the research database, as well as login attempts in the backup business database after normal hours of operation. Because this is also the backup for our business information we need to keep this area as secure as possible.
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SQL Injection – an input validation attack specific to database applications where SQL code is inserted into application queries to manipulate the database.
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The Aim Higher college has recently had some issues of sensitive information being stolen from students when registering for classes. I believe that the web application that the student information system is using is a problem named SQL injection. A SQL injection attack is an attack where the attacker can run malicious SQL queries against a web application’s database server and it can be a danger for the users who access the web page because the hacker will look for their personal information records, then delete it or modify the information gained. This type of attack is no joke we have to take action and create a plan to resolve this vulnerability on our database, so the students will register for their courses with our security on their side.
Firstly I will like to talk about the Microsoft SQL Server. According to Vincent (July 2010) Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database managing software developed by Microsoft. Since many years back (1989) the SQL Server has been experiencing a lot attacks. For example
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If a user wants to extract data and if it contains sensitive information, the DBMS should mention an user friendly error message like "Cannot have access to this data" so that user will not try to dig the information further.
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“Branch Locator” page is vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. This is a serious vulnerability which involves inserting malicious SQL statements into an input field for execution. By appending SQL statements to the URL of the Branch Locator page, information about the structure of the underlying database was collected. This information was then used to generate further malicious statements. The list of database objects, tables and columns were returned. The
Web applications are nowadays serving as a company’s public face to the internet. This has created the need to identify threats and attacks directed to data servers and web applications. Hackers exploit vulnerabilities in input validation and authentication affecting the web application in order to gain illegal access and disclose sensitive data or manipulate it to their benefits.