What is SQL injection ?

What is SQL injection ?

" SQL injection is a method to check your website vulnerabilities in order to mess up with your database system and to steal or delete user names and passwords from your application's database to exploit. In this attack SQL commands injected in to your application, so called SQL injection."

SQL injection as the name implies is a sort of security attack or security breach, which is used in order to exploit with database vulnerabilities. Through SQL injection a hacker can break down your entire database system or they can steal your digital identities.
In SQL injection a hacker or intruder find out some vulnerabilities in your database and then use HTML form to send malicious SQL code into your database to exploit. As this code executes throw an error into the intruder's browser, which helps that intruder to mess up with database records and data. Now intruder is worthy to steal data or to get change anything in your database. If you contain some sensitive information in your database then you can calculate how much it can harm you.

How to prevent SQL injection attacks in order to save you ?

In order to keep your application protected from SQL injection attack use server side and client side validations to ignore some special characters like - , / , * , =.

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