MySQL claims to be the world's most popular open source database, and with good reason. It is free, runs on a wide variety of platforms, is relatively simple, easy to configure and performs well even under significant load. By comparison to some other popular database management systems, configuring it is quite simple, but there are still a sufficiently wide variety of security-relevant configuration issues to make securing it a challenge.
This Free PDF Ebooks is a brief outline of common attacks on MySQL and the steps that a MySQL administrator can take to defend against them.
MySQL AB actively maintain several versions of their database software, and determining which version to install can be somewhat confusing. From a security point of view the decision is further complicated by the fact that additional security features are often available in 'alpha' versions but not in the current 'production' version.
Since it is so popular, and free, you find MySQL servers in all manner of places on a network. There are many open source projects that integrate with it so it is not uncommon to find users running MySQL on their desktop machines, rather than dedicated servers.
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Submitted by acrobat on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 19:58.
