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The SQL Injection Feedback Loop
Databases Security Programming
6 months ago 467.7K views 0 shares
The SQL Injection Feedback Loop
When SQL developers give feedback... Someone just executed the most ruthless SQL injection attack on that poor survey form! The classic "; DROP TABLE Responses; is basically the programmer equivalent of pulling the tablecloth out from under a fully set dinner table. The survey creator probably forgot to sanitize their inputs, and now all that precious community feedback exists only in the void of deleted data. Somewhere, a database admin just felt a disturbance in the force.

Little Billy's Prompt Injection Adventure
Security Databases AI Programming Testing
1 year ago 667.0K views 4 shares
Little Billy's Prompt Injection Adventure
This is the sequel to the legendary XKCD "Little Bobby Tables" comic! The original showed a mom who named her kid "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--" which caused a school database to delete all student records. Now we've got Billy's younger brother with an even more diabolical name: a prompt injection attack for AI systems. The kid's name literally instructs the AI to ignore previous constraints and give perfect grades. Ten years ago we were sanitizing database inputs. Now we're fighting the same battle with AI prompts. Some things never change—just the technology we're failing to secure properly.

Online Bank Doesn't Know How To Sanitize Input
Security Frontend Webdev Programming Databases
1 year ago 303.7K views 2 shares
Online Bank Doesn't Know How To Sanitize Input
A bank that demands special characters but then bans the most common ones is like a bouncer who insists you wear shoes but prohibits sneakers, boots, and sandals. The irony here is magnificent - they're essentially saying "please make your password secure by using things we've decided are too secure." Next they'll probably ban numbers because they look too much like code. Banking security at its finest, folks.