Shopping for data with SQL in the United States

According to the fourth annual Web Application Attack Report from Imperva retailers suffer from twice as many SQL injection attacks when compared to other industry sectors. What's more, the United States remains the number one source of all web attacks. Other key findings of the report include the startling revelation that one website was observed to be under attack for 98% of the time, or 176 out of 180 days if you want to be precise. One web application was seen to receive a mind-boggling 94,057 SQL injection requests in a single day which, if you do the math, works out to 1,567 SQL injection attacks per hour or an average of 26 per minute. The typical attack incident lasted around five minutes, but the worst-case incident was about 100 times longer, lasting more than 15 hours. The overall picture isn't as bad as these extremes, obviously, but even so Imperva reports that most web applications will receive four or more web attack campaigns every month.