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.

But in the affected versions of MariaDB and MySQL, as MontyProgram's Sergei Golubchik wrote in a list posting on June 9, the database can be fooled into accepting a password even if it doesn't match.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Use this guide to learn how to easily create and manage a MySQL 8 user with remote access to all databases.

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.