This article shows you how to set, change, and recover secure passwords for your MySQL root account, so you'll never be at a loss.

Database administrators received a stark reminder about the shortcomings of password protection late January following reports that a new net worm has started exploiting MySQL databases configured ...

If MySQL was built on such a system, the code that compares the cryptographic hash of a user-inputted password to the hash stored in the database for a particular account will sometimes allow ...

"When a user connects to MariaDB/MySQL, a token (SHA over a password and a random scramble string) is calculated and compared with the expected value," said Golubchik. "Because of incorrect ...

Security experts have identified some 879,046 servers vulnerable to a brute force flaw that undermines password controls in MySQL and MariaDB systems.

Next, I'll need to make a connection to the MySQL server using the username and password we specified earlier. Here I'm specifying a MySQL server named MYSQLSERVER connecting to a database called ...

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.