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Tip: Database Security Explained |
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Sunday, 29 January 2006 |
The most popular open source database for Linux, is MySQL. It's easy to install and configure, runs light, and is quite fast. You'll commonly see it harnessed to Apacheserving up site content and authenticating users and offering a tempting target to those with more time than sense or conscience.
The problems a database server may encounter should sound familiar:
Server compromise. Any software, especially code written in languages such as C or C++, has the potential for buffer overflows, format-string attacks, and other exploits that are by now all too familiar. And software written in any language has logic errors and plain old blunders.
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