By Raj Soni As president & CEO of Adaptive Systems Inc, a firm exclusively focused on data privacy, security and compliance, “why should I monitor my databases?” is a question I get asked all the time. Many clients have said that their databases are in a secure zone and in a...
I’m sure you have asked yourself this question, right? Simple answer: SQL Injection. "...they probably stole the database credentials out of the [web] application…" According to the below article and many others online, the data breach occurred due to a web app vulnerability. This article explains technically what happened. http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/62934/hacking/equifax-hack-struts.html Excerpt from the above article: “For...