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Tupac lives! According to a recent article on PBS Newshour, “the prominent rapper has been found alive and well in a small resort in New Zealand.
Oh wait…PBS got hacked. What were they running? MySQL, of course. How did they get hacked? An injection attack, of course.
The complete list of databases compromised can be found here.
The TM Repository runs on MySQL and it’s got me wondering how much longer until I’m inevitably hacked for doing so. I’m sure I’ll be fine though, the server is running Linux so its inherent security will protect the site.
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If you get hacked, it’s obviously your fault, not MySQL’s. If you were using Oracle (same vendor) though, it would be clearly their fault. Pretty obvious?
Aren’t there supposed to be “best programming practices” to prevent this thing from happening? If so, why are these people not following them? So, it’s their fault.
Incompetent (or tired/stressed/forced to complete a project with a tight deadline) programmers can write vulnerable code no matter what database they use. They could’ve written the same bugs if they were using Oracle or SQL Server.
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