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The vast majority of those millions of passwords became public after the breach of RockYou.com, a social networking applications site penetrated by cybercriminals using an SQL-injection.
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But most of those sites still remain vulnerable to SQL injection--meaning the same group of hackers or a copycat group could use similar techniques to redirect the sites' visitors to another server hosting malicious software, Danchev argues.
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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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