Some 88% of all SQL injection attacks between January and March of this year were carried out by either Havij or sqlmap, according to new research from Imperva, with the majority of attacks using Havij.

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Plenty of folks in the cyber security field have debated whether the rise of Anonymous would actually lead to increased spending on services like protection from DDoS attacks, which can temporarily paralyze a website, and SQL injection-type attacks that can raid a database and sometimes purge it of all contents.

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There has been a surge of cyber attacks on companies this year using SQL Injection, a relatively straightforward method that involves inputting programming code, which a server or site cannot handle.

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While the definition is ever expanding, cross script scripting (XSS) attacks are generally considered a type of injection problem where malicious input is injected into an otherwise trusted web page causing an unexpected behavior such as sending data to or from an unknown third party web site (cross site).

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