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April 23, 2017
Percona XtraDB Cluster: “dh key too small” error during an SST using SSL
If you’ve tried to use SSL in Percona XtraDB Cluster and saw an error in the logs like SSL3_CHECK_CERT_AND_ALGORITHM:dh key [...]
April 21, 2017
Percona Server for MySQL in Docker Swarm with Secrets
This quick post demonstrates using Percona Server for MySQL in Docker Swarm with some new authentication provisioning practices. Some small changes to [...]
April 21, 2017
Simplified Percona XtraDB Cluster SSL Configuration
In this blog post, we’ll look at a feature that recently added to Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.16, that makes it [...]
April 21, 2017
How to Setup and Troubleshoot Percona PAM with LDAP for External Authentication
In this blog, we’ll look at how to setup and troubleshoot the Percona PAM authentication plugin. We occasionally get requests [...]
April 21, 2017
Enabling Percona XtraDB Cluster SST Traffic Encryption
In this blog post, we’ll look at enabling Percona XtraDB Cluster SST Traffic Encryption, and some of the changes to [...]
March 16, 2017
Percona Server for MongoDB: Dashing New LDAP Authentication Plugin
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog, [...]
March 10, 2017
Troubleshooting MySQL access privileges issues: Q & A
In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Troubleshooting MySQL Access Privileges Issues webinar. [...]
March 6, 2017
MySQL, –i-am-a-dummy!
In this blog post, we’ll look at how “operator error” can cause serious problems (like the one we saw last [...]
March 3, 2017
MongoDB Audit Log: Why and How
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog [...]
February 27, 2017
MySQL Ransomware: Open Source Database Security Part 3
This blog post examines the recent MySQL® ransomware attacks, and what open source database security best practices could have prevented [...]
February 22, 2017
Webinar Thursday, February 23, 2017: Troubleshooting MySQL Access Privileges Issues
Please join Sveta Smirnova, Percona’s Principal Technical Services Engineer, as she presents Troubleshooting MySQL Access Privileges Issues on February 23, [...]
January 31, 2017
Docker Security Vulnerability CVE-2016-9962
Docker 1.12.6 was released to address CVE-2016-9962. CVE-2016-9962 is a serious vulnerability with RunC. Quoting the coreos page (linked above): “RunC allowed additional [...]
January 12, 2017
CVE-2016-6225: Percona Xtrabackup Encryption IV Not Being Set Properly
If you are using Percona XtraBackup with [crayon-68ea6da22f680580023029-i/] to create encrypted backups, and are using versions older than 2.3.6 or 2.4.5, we [...]
January 5, 2017
MongoDB Ransomware: Not Likely, But How Do You Know?
In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the concerns recently seen around MongoDB ransomware and security issues. Security [...]
November 14, 2016
Using Vault with MySQL
Using Vault with MySQL In my previous post I discussed using GPG to secure your database credentials. This relies on [...]
September 15, 2016
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.30-25.16.2 is now available (CVE-2016-6662 fix)
Percona announces the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on September 15, 2016. Binaries are available from the downloads area [...]
September 12, 2016
Is Your Database Affected by CVE-2016-6662?
In this blog post, I will discuss the CVE-2016-6662 vulnerability, how to tell if it affects you, and how to [...]
September 7, 2016
Get MySQL Passwords in Plain Text from .mylogin.cnf
This post will tell you how to get MySQL passwords in plain text using the .mylogin.cnf file. Since MySQL 5.6.6, [...]
August 30, 2016
Webinar Thursday, September 1 – MongoDB Security: A Practical Approach
Please join David Murphy as he presents a webinar Thursday, September 1 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) on MongoDB Security: A [...]
August 2, 2016
Take Percona’s One-Click Database Security Downtime Poll
Take Percona’s database security downtime poll. As Peter Zaitsev mentioned recently in his blog post on database support, the data [...]