The_Database_Hacker_s_Handbook

The Database Hacker's Handbook: Defending Database Servers
by David Litchfield et al.
John Wiley & Sons © 2005 (500 pages)
ISBN:0764578014
Written by four of the world's top security experts, this book teaches you how to identify vulnerabilities, how attacks are carried out, and how to stop the carnage of database hackers.

Back CoverDatabases :
are the nerve center of our economy. Every piece of your personal information is stored there -- medical records, bank accounts, employment history, pensions, car registrations, even your children's grades and what groceries you buy. Database attacks are potentially crippling-and relentless.

In this essential follow-up to The Shellcoder's Handbook, four of the world's top security experts teach you to break into and defend the seven most popular database servers. You'll learn how to identify vulnerabilities, how attacks are carried out, and how to stop the carnage. The bad guys already know all this. You need to know it too.

Identify and plug the new holes in Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server
Learn the best defenses for IBM's DB2, PostgreSQL, Sybase ASE, and MySQL servers
Discover how buffer overflow exploitation, privilege escalation through SQL, stored procedure or trigger abuse, and SQL injection enable hacker access
Recognize vulnerabilities peculiar to each database
Find out what the attackers already know