Monday, May 16, 2011
Anu
We hear the same terms bandied about whenever a popular site gets hacked. You know… SQL
Injection, cross site scripting, that kind of thing. But what do these
things mean? Is hacking really as inaccessible as many of us imagine — a
nefarious, impossibly technical twilight world forever beyond our ken?
Not really.
When
you consider that you can go to Google right now and enter a search
string which will return you thousands of usernames and passwords to
websites, you realize that this dark science is really no mystery at
all. You'll react similarly when you see just how simple a concept SQL
Injection is, and how it can be automated with simple tools. Read on,
to learn the basics of how sites and web content management systems are
most often hacked, and what you can do to reduce the risk of it
happening to you.
