Lizamoon: will lessons be learned?

Stuart Sumner
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The recent massive SQL injection attack was a stark reminder of how slack coding practices can have sometimes devastating consequences

Lizamoon, the mass SQL injection attack, has reached epidemic proportions in recent weeks, with the malware infecting about four million web sites and returning more than 1.4 million results on Goo...

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