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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

Not only SQL injection – non-relational repositories

The term NoSQL has been debated over the years. Someone, probably not careful enough, would tell you it means No SQL, as in there is positively nothing SQL-related about this matter. While it is true that such databases use different approaches from the relational model (as we saw in Chapter 1, Structured Query Language for SQL Injection), some underlying logic is shared. The term NoSQL stems from the need to underline the differences with respect to the dominant database model. Going on, the term NoSQL, due to the fact that it generates some misunderstandings, is less preferred to the more general term non-relational, or no-rel for short.

As we already mentioned in Chapter 1, Structured Query Language for SQL Injection, the principles of SQL injection also impact, in some form or another, databases that do not incorporate SQL or the relational model. A trivial explanation is that the principle of injection, as it happens...