{"id":3900,"date":"2016-11-03T11:10:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2016-11-03T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:11:38","slug":"mysql-2-new-exploits-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/11\/03\/mysql-2-new-exploits-released\/","title":{"rendered":"MySQL &#8211; 2 New Exploits Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/11\/mysql-zero-day-exploits.html\">Click for Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two new security vulnerabilities have been found in MySql, an opensource database management system. \u00a0 MySQL is extremely popular and is listed as the #2 world&#8217;s most popular database.<\/p>\n<p>One of the flaws allows a hacker to execute code to elevate their user status to a database system user. \u00a0 This elevation could allow the hacker to gain complete access to all databases on the hacked server. The second flaw allows a hacker to escalate their user privileges to root user.<\/p>\n<p>Patches for these exploits are already available, and users of MySQL are urged to apply them immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Information is King! \u00a0 And gaining access to information gives anyone the keys to the castle. \u00a0So much information is stored in databases about us, it&#8217;s scary. \u00a0 Popular database flaws like this are scary. \u00a0 It adds one more tool in a hackers toolbox to gain access to our information. \u00a0 The recent breaches of online accounts and credit card information just goes to reinforce the fact that hackers will always target this valuable information!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for Article Two new security vulnerabilities have been found in MySql, an opensource database management system. \u00a0 MySQL is extremely popular and is listed as the #2 world&#8217;s most popular database. One of the flaws allows a hacker to execute code to elevate their user status to a database system user. \u00a0 This elevation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12789,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3902,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/3902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}