/tags/union/ Recent content in UNION on NixBytes Hugo en-us Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/machine-spirits--malicious-queries-a-sql-injection-lab-chronicle/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/machine-spirits--malicious-queries-a-sql-injection-lab-chronicle/ <h2 id="machine-spirits--malicious-queries-a-sql-injection-lab-chronicle">Machine Spirits &amp; Malicious Queries: A SQL Injection Lab Chronicle</h2> <p>In the grim darkness of the modern internet, there is only… vulnerable input fields.</p> <p>Recently, I completed a hands-on cybersecurity lab from portswigger focused on identifying the number of columns returned by a database query using a <strong>UNION-based SQL Injection technique</strong>. While performing the exercise, I couldn’t help but imagine the process through the lens of the techno-mystic engineers of the Adeptus Mechanicus from the universe of Warhammer 40,000.</p>