Tom Woolums' Blog

I'm a relative newcommer to IIS. Most of my posts are intended for beginners and novices.

  • Protection from SQL Injection

    I just finished watching a short video on YouTube of a 13-year-old kid showing people how to hack into a retail Web site. It only took him a couple of minutes and one simple technique to gain access to their customers’ personal information—including credit card numbers. I guess you can never tell whether or not a YouTube video is staged or rigged to make it appear to be more than it actually is; however, the method he demonstrated, while simple, is effective and can be used to exploit security holes in Web sites left open by sloppy programming.