Threat Post

Critical MySQL Vulnerabilities Can Lead to Server Compromise

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 ...
Simon Fraser University

[linux-security] MySQL DoS and local root exploits

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 ...
Linux Journal

MySQL—Some Handy Know-How

I recently was talking to someone over IRC who was helping me with a PHP app that was giving me trouble. The extremely helpful individual asked me to let him know the value of a certain field in a ...
Bleeping Computer

Database Ransom Attacks Have Now Hit MySQL Servers

After the ransacking of MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, CouchDB, and Cassandra servers, attackers are now hijacking hundreds of MySQL databases, deleting their content, and leaving a ransom note ...
Krebs on Security

MySQL.com Sold for $3k, Serves Malware

A security firm revealed today that mysql.com, the central repository for widely-used Web database software, was hacked and booby-trapped to serve visitors with malicious software. The disclosure ...