Summary

Databases 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(r) SQL Server
* Learn the best defenses for IBM's DB2(r), PostgreSQL, Sybase ASE, and MySQL(r) 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


Table of Contents

• Part I: Introduction.

Chapter 1: Why Care About Database Security?

• Part II: Oracle.

Chapter 2: The Oracle Architecture.

Chapter 3: Attacking Oracle.

Chapter 4: Oracle: Moving Further into the Network.

Chapter 5: Securing Oracle.

• Part III: DB2.

Chapter 6: IBM DB2 Universal Database.

Chapter 7: DB2: Discovery, Attack, and Defense.

Chapter 8: Attacking DB2.

Chapter 9: Securing DB2.

• Part IV: Informix.

Chapter 10: The Informix Architecture.

Chapter 11: Informix: Discovery, Attack, and Defense.

Chapter 12: Securing Informix.

• Part V: Sybase ASE.

Chapter 13: Sybase Architecture.

Chapter 14: Sybase: Discovery, Attack, and Defense.

Chapter 15: Sybase: Moving Further into the Network.

Chapter 16: Securing Sybase.

• Part VI: MySQL.

Chapter 17: MySQL Architecture.

Chapter 18: MySQL: Discovery, Attack, and Defense.

Chapter 19: MySQL: Moving Further into the Network.

Chapter 20: Securing MySQL.

• Part VII: SQL Server.

Chapter 21: Microsoft SQL Server Architecture.

Chapter 22: SQL Server: Exploitation, Attack, and Defense.

Chapter 23: Securing SQL Server.

• Part VIII: PostgreSQL.

Chapter 24: The PostgreSQL Architecture.

Chapter 25: PostgreSQL: Discovery and Attack.

Chapter 26: Securing PostgreSQL.

Appendix A: Example C Code for a Time-Delay SQL Injection Harness.

Appendix B: Dangerous Extended Stored Procedures.

Appendix C: Oracle Default Usernames and Passwords.