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Chatting with developer Frank Korf about SQL injection, the attack used to breach the Illinois State Board of Elections

Eddie VanBogaert, Head of Sales: Here in Illinois, the release of stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee isn’t the only news headline to involve both information security and the ...
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DOOM multiplayer tribute gets coded in 'pure SQL' and runs at 30FPS — made from just 150 lines of code in less than a month

A computer scientist used only “pure SQL” to construct a multiplayer DOOM-like game. The resulting first-person shooter game, cobbled from a mere ~150 lines of Python code, is dubbed DOOMQL. Despite ...
GIGAZINE

SQL injection vulnerability in PostgreSQL went undiscovered for over nine years and was used to break into the US Treasury Department

On December 30, 2024, a 'Chinese government-sponsored advanced persistent threat actor' breached a system managing confidential data for the U.S. Treasury Department. It was discovered that the ...
Entrepreneur

What Is SQL and How Does It Work?

Out of all the programming languages you need to learn in the IT industry, SQL is one of the most important. SQL is so integral to modern big data access and organization processes that it’s never a ...
ZDNet

Improve dynamic SQL performance with binds

Developers often dismiss dynamic SQL used in PL/SQL programs for two reasons. One reason is that it's riskier because the SQL statements aren't parsed until runtime, so it's more difficult to catch ...