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| Dark Reading: Hackers Choice -- Top Six Database Attacks |
8 May 2008
By Kelly Jackson Higgins, Senior Editor
It takes the average attacker less than 10 seconds to hack in and out of a database -- hardly enough time for the database administrator to even notice the intruder. So it’s no surprise that many database attacks go unnoticed by organizations until long after the data has been compromised...
...“The big thing that bothers me is when I go to a customer’s site, usually their [database] configuration is so weak that it’s easy to exploit. You usually don’t need buffer overflow or SQL injection [attacks] because the initial setup of the database is totally insecure,” says Slavik Markovich, CTO of Sentrigo, a database security vendor.
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