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 ...

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the MySQL database system, a light database package commonly used in Linux environments but which runs also on Microsoft platforms, HP-Unix, Mac OS and more.

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 ...

MySQL data migration is a critical process for organizations looking to upgrade their database systems or move to new environments. During this transition, security concerns take center stage, as ...

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MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

Application Security Inc. is rolling out a security scanner for MySQL, the open-source database from MySQL AB, and for Web applications. AppDetective 3.2 for Web Applications and AppDetective 3.2 for ...

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 ...

A researcher has disclosed a zero-day flaw in the widely-used MySQL database application after Oracle reportedly failed to patch the critical security hole. On Monday, independent security researcher ...

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 ...