Tue, July 31
Black Hat 2007: Researchers highlight new database attack method
By Bill Brenner
Excerpt:
“Database insecurity has been a recurring theme at the annual Black Hat conference, and this year is no exception. Among this year's presentations, researchers from Core Security Technologies will demonstrate a new attack technique cyberthieves could exploit to steal credit card and Social Security numbers …
“As part of the presentation, Saura and Waissbein will explain how they found the attack method and demonstrate its effectiveness both in theory and by describing their experiments implementing the attack against a default MySQL database installation. They will also talk about ways to detect or prevent attacks.”
Source: SearchSecurity.com
Source:
SearchSecurity.com