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By Mike Chapple, About.com Guide to Databases since 2000

Testing Web Applications for SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Tuesday May 13, 2008
SQL Injection attacks pose tremendous risks to web applications that depend upon a database backend to generate dynamic content. In this type of attack, hackers manipulate a web application in an attempt to inject their own SQL commands into those issued by the database. In this article, we take a look at several ways you can test your web applications to determine whether they're vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks.

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