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 ...

No official patch is available for MySQL 5.0.x, because that version of the database server is no longer supported by Oracle. However, some Linux vendors might backport the patch from MySQL 5.1 or ...

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