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Protecting Your MySQL Database From SQL Injection Attacks With GreenSQL Print E-mail
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Source: linux.com - Posted by John P. Forman   
Server Security SQL injection attacks can allow hackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands on your database through your Web site. To avoid these attacks, every piece of data supplied by a user on a Web form, through HTTP Post or CGI parameters, or other means, must be validated to not contain information that is not expected. GreenSQL is a firewall for SQL -- it sits between your Web site and MySQL database and decides which SQL statements should and should not be executed. At least that's the idea -- in execution, I found some open doors. Do you want to know how you can protect your website's MySQL server from SQL injection attacks? Then read the following article which reviews GreenSQL, a proxy which guards against these types of attacks.

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Security engineerWritten by CBRP1R8 on 2008-08-27 09:01:48
Meh, the article was ok, but the product itself doesn't sound so hot. The major issue bing nearly impossible to configure correctly for a novice sql user, strange obscure error messages and the like. I don't know if this would be for me, but i'm sure someone out there would enjoy using it, the support and packages doesn't cover everyone though, espcially newer flavors.

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