Tag: security

By now everyone’s likely heard about the serious vulnerability affecting the Wi-Fi security protocol WPA2 that secures the wireless communications of just about every consumer device out there. The Key Reinstallation Attacks (KRACK) allow an attacker to control the encryption…

According to the Washington Post, at the end of June the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security sent a joint alert to the energy sector stating that “advanced, persistent threat actors” — a euphemism for sophisticated foreign hackers —…

Get insight into the recent MySQL file system vulnerabilities.

What should you do about the Dirty C0w vulnerability?

This post goes through the available security features one-by-one in Cassandra version 3.9.

Ivan Groenewold, MySQL Database Consultant at Pythian, discusses auditing MySQL users with the McAffee plugin.

Derek Downey, OSDB Practice Advocate at Pythian, explains how to protect against the MySQL bug CVE-2016-6662.

Sandeep Arora, SQL Server Database Consultant, explains how to automate a SQL Server Security review using PowerShell.

Minto Joseph, Site Reliability Consultant at Pythian, explains how to encrypting sensitive data in puppet using hiera-eyaml.

Pep Pla, MySQL Database Consultant at Pythian, explains how to properly remove users in MySQL.