Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Reading columns and their data

In this section, lets see whether we can select and have a look at all the details that exist within the accounts table. Let's see whether we can query the database and read the information stored in the accounts table. To do that, we need to know the names of the columns that exist within the accounts table because, if we look at the way we're using our statement, we're performing union select table_name from information_schema.tables, so we still don't know what columns exist in the accounts table. We can guess that there is a username and a password, but sometimes they could have different names, so we're going to see how we can select the columns for a certain table.

The command is going to be very similar ...