System administrators should be patching their MySQL installations if they haven't in the last three weeks, to safeguard their database servers against three critical security flaws discovered by ...

Securing your MySQL installation isn’t difficult. Find out how to easily harden MySQL with one command. Chances are, your data center depends upon a MySQL database server or two. If that is the case, ...

Critical vulnerabilities in MySQL and database servers MariaDB and PerconaDB can lead to arbitrary code execution, root privilege escalation, and server compromise. Critical vulnerabilities in MySQL ...

When the latest release of MariaDB was announced in April by MontyProgram AB founder and MySQL creator Michael “Monty” Widenius, it came with a warning from Widenius that a severe security bug had ...

Hackers have been observed targeting vulnerable MySQL servers in an attempt to compromise and assimilate them into a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) botnet. Researchers at the AhnLab Security ...

Security researchers have released details about a vulnerability in the MySQL server that could allow potential attackers to access MySQL databases without inputting proper authentication credentials.

An unusual password vulnerability that makes hundreds of thousands of MySQL and MariaDB databases vulnerable to simple brute-force attacks is likely to soon start a ripple effect of increased data ...

MySQL servers are being targeted by the 'Ddostf' malware botnet to enslave them for a DDoS-as-a-Service platform whose firepower is rented to other cybercriminals. This campaign was discovered by ...

Topic ===== local root exploit and DoS attack against MySQL Problem Description ===== MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. The MySQL package contains a bug whereby dynamically ...

The MySQL community is a hotbed of free, open source tools to enhance the performance and health of your MySQL systems MySQL is a complex system that requires many tools to repair, diagnose, and ...