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Network attacks on MySQL, Part 6: Loose ends
Backup traffic After securing application-to-database and replication traffic, you should also do the same for backup traffic. If you use Percona XtraBackup with streaming than you should use SSH to…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 5: Attack on SHA256 based passwords
The mysql_sha256_password doesn’t use the nonce system which is used for mysql_new_password, but instead forces the use of RSA or SSL. This is how that works: The client connects The…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 5: Attack on SHA256 based passwords
The mysql_sha256_password doesn’t use the nonce system which is used for mysql_new_password, but instead forces the use of RSA or SSL. This is how that works: The client connects The…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 4: SSL hostnames
In my previous blogs I told you to enable SSL/TLS and configure it to check the CA. So I followed my advice and did all that. Great! So the –ssl-mode…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 4: SSL hostnames
In my previous blogs I told you to enable SSL/TLS and configure it to check the CA. So I followed my advice and did all that. Great! So the –ssl-mode…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 3: What do you trust?
In my previous blogs I told you to enable SSL/TLS and force the connection to be secured. So I followed my advice and did forced SSL. Great! So now everything…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 3: What do you trust?
In my previous blogs I told you to enable SSL/TLS and force the connection to be secured. So I followed my advice and did forced SSL. Great! So now everything…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 2: SSL stripping with MySQL
Intro In my previous blog post I told you to use SSL/TLS to secure your MySQL network connections. So I followed my advice and did enable SSL. Great! So first…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 2: SSL stripping with MySQL
Intro In my previous blog post I told you to use SSL/TLS to secure your MySQL network connections. So I followed my advice and did enable SSL. Great! So first…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 1: Unencrypted connections
Intro In a set of blog posts I will explain to you how different attacks on the network traffic of MySQL look like and what you can do to secure…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 1: Unencrypted connections
Intro In a set of blog posts I will explain to you how different attacks on the network traffic of MySQL look like and what you can do to secure…
Improving MySQL out of disk space behaviour
Running out of disk space is something which, of course, should never happen as we all setup monitoring and alerting and only run well behaved applications. But when it does…
Improving MySQL out of disk space behaviour
Running out of disk space is something which, of course, should never happen as we all setup monitoring and alerting and only run well behaved applications. But when it does…
The mysql client, and some improvements
The mysql client is a tool which I use every day as a DBA. I think it’s a great tool. When I used a client of several other SQL and…
The mysql client, and some improvements
The mysql client is a tool which I use every day as a DBA. I think it’s a great tool. When I used a client of several other SQL and…