Online attacks against databases have taken off in the past 18 months,
according to data released by IBM’s X-Force security team.
In May 2008, IBM’s customers encounters about 2,500 SQL injection
attacks every day. By midsummer 2009, the technology giant’s product
were seeing 600,000 database attacks per day on average, said Tom
Cross, a security researcher at IBM. The attacks attempt to inject
legitimate structured query language (SQL) commands into whichever
database software runs a particular Web site.
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/1048