Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

Back in the late 1990s, SQL injection changed the trajectory of application security. Attackers realized they could manipulate backend databases simply by inserting malicious code into user inputs.

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