SQL injection attack and database security

SQL Injection attack and database security T he cyberpunk world of ours is getting more real since the cyberattacks are increasing as rapidly as the enormous data is being generated these days. At such time, a software that has the database having expensive data at its core can often have vulnerabilities, less assured components or configurations, and thus can invite malicious attacks. These vulnerabilities in software can often be exploited by cybercriminals and can lead to data breaches and the illegitimate use of the database can be a potential threat to the organization.  These attacks targeting the database on the servers can often be a DDoS attack, Buffer Overflow attack, or even malware. In the case of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service), the cybercriminals flood the database server using a load of fake requests and thus increase the query traffic making the service unavailable. In the case of  Buffer Overflow attack, the buffers in memory that temporarily manage the d...