Most of the world's sensitive data is stored in commercial database systems such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 and Sybase - making databases an increasingly favorite target for criminals. This may explain why SQL injection attacks jumped 134 percent in 2008, increasing from an average of a few thousand per day to several hundred thousand per day according to a recently-published report by IBM.

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