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SQL Injection Strategies

By : Ettore Galluccio, Edoardo Caselli, Gabriele Lombari
Book Image

SQL Injection Strategies

By: Ettore Galluccio, Edoardo Caselli, Gabriele Lombari

Overview of this book

SQL injection (SQLi) is probably the most infamous attack that can be unleashed against applications on the internet. SQL Injection Strategies is an end-to-end guide for beginners looking to learn how to perform SQL injection and test the security of web applications, websites, or databases, using both manual and automated techniques. The book serves as both a theoretical and practical guide to take you through the important aspects of SQL injection, both from an attack and a defense perspective. You’ll start with a thorough introduction to SQL injection and its impact on websites and systems. Later, the book features steps to configure a virtual environment, so you can try SQL injection techniques safely on your own computer. These tests can be performed not only on web applications but also on web services and mobile applications that can be used for managing IoT environments. Tools such as sqlmap and others are then covered, helping you understand how to use them effectively to perform SQL injection attacks. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with SQL injection, from both the attack and defense perspective.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Section 1: (No)SQL Injection in Theory
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Section 2: SQL Injection in Practice

Attacking IoT targets

When dealing with IoT devices, we usually consider a complex environment in which these devices are usually at the outermost end of an interconnected network. We usually refer to small devices with low computational power—such as sensors, little appliances, and more—often running embedded systems with minimal functionality. This is because these devices are designed to perform very specialized tasks, which do not require complex operating systems. The result consists of small, handy devices that are always connected and are communicating with other devices, being other small IoT devices or servers, that might collect some kind of data, be it from measuring or input from the device itself.

IoT has been a hot topic recently, and many are investing in these practical technologies, which help to integrate technology in the everyday world. However, at the same time, security has sometimes been neglected in these systems. This is probably due to the...