PHP is a very handy — and widespread — Web programming language. But as Tom Scott demonstrates in the video below, it’s also quite vulnerable to a basic SQL injection attack that could give a hacker ...

I have been assigned a small project that requires a Perl front end via CGI and a MySQL back end with a simple database. The database has basic names, addresses, and some flags to tell whether someone ...

Hackers have posted an email to the Full-Disclosure mailing list that describes the breach of numerous MySQL websites, along with information from MySQL's database, including usernames and passwords.

MySQL.com, the official website of the database management system of the same name, was today subjected to an attack whereby hackers used SQL injection exploits to gain access to a complete list of ...

It’s been more than two years since the general release of MySQL 5.6, and on Monday Oracle announced that its successor will soon arrive bearing a significant boost in performance along with improved ...

Oracle’s MySQL.com customer website was apparently compromised over the weekend by a pair of hackers who publicly posted usernames, and in some cases passwords, of the site’s users. Taking credit for ...

MySQL 6.0 is scheduled for release in late 2008; some code contributed by Google and security improvements are due in MySQL 7.0 MySQL has laid out its software road map through 2009, including some ...

Oracle’s MySQL.com customer Web site was compromised over the weekend by a pair of hackers who publicly posted usernames, and in some cases passwords, of the site’s users. Taking credit for the hack ...

My SQL AB has laid out its software road map through 2009, including some code contributed by Google Inc. and security improvements that are due in MySQL 7.0. Earlier this year Google signed a ...