There has been a lot of talk about open source sustainability over the past few years, and for good reason. Open source now powers much of the world’s most critical new technologies, from programming ...

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 ...

MySQL is a superstar among open-source databases. There are more than ten million MySQL installations worldwide, and it is used by top sites like Google, Yahoo, Slashdot and Travelocity. It is ...

How to set up MySQL for remote access on Ubuntu Server 16.04 Your email has been sent If you need to allow remote connections to your MySQL server, see how you can easily accomplish that task. If you ...

Topic ===== Buffer overflow in MySQL allows remote exploit. Problem Description ===== A buffer overflow in the mysql server that leads to a remote exploit. An attacker could gain mysqld privileges ...

Recently while reviewing MySQL client tools, I discovered a Linux MySQL server on my local network refusing all incoming connections. Because I run Slackware, I suspected that the -skip-networking ...