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MySQL Security Presentation at Boston MySQL User Group Meeting

Posted February 20th, 2007 by sheeri

The February Boston MySQL User Group meeting was great! I spoke about MySQL security; you can now download the slides and the video. I continue to be impressed with the sound quality of the video camera I have, I was pretty good about repeating the question folks asked, but you can clearly hear it in the audio (well, I could when I was wearing headphones, but I also have pretty bad hearing).

Special thanks to http://technocation.org for hosting the bandwidth for the videos.

Topics covered in the talk:
ACLs
Test dbs & anonymous accounts
OS files and permissions
Application data flow
SQL Injection
XSS (Cross-site scripting)

PDF of slides (1.4M):
http://www.sheeri.com/presentations/MySQLSecurity2007_02_08.pdf

Slides in Flash (107K):
http://www.sheeri.com/presentations/MySQLSecurity2007_02_08.swf

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Sheeri, Do you know if MySQL

On March 3rd, 2007 Jonathan Roberts (not verified) says:

Sheeri,

Do you know if MySQL maintains a list of user groups? I would like to find one near me but I don't know where to look.

Thanks, and great blog!

Hi Jonathan, You can find a

On March 4th, 2007 technocation says:

Hi Jonathan,

You can find a list of user groups on the MySQL Forge at:

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Category:MySQLUserGroups

Thank you!

On March 13th, 2007 Jonathan Roberts (not verified) says:

Thank you!

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