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Introduction I am back with a a new topic for this week! a couple of months ago, I was playing around with and testing out MySQL database here in Fedora, so that I can learn the ropes for it if I need to configure and use it someday! I decided to create a simple security "checklist" for the first blog entry this week, to help get you moving in the right direction, after reading some suggestions from the manual. Instead of going into a detailed fashion, about what exact steps you need to take to secure the database in the best possible fashion exactly, I am going to list some "general" purpose steps that you can take if you are building a LAMP stack for instance in Linux. Here is the list (It's not exhaustive), but I may or may not add more resources to it in the future! [1] Common Security tips for securing MySQL/MariaDB databases: Make sure that only certain individuals have "root" access to the database (see below) Always put root passwords into ...

Introduction I am back writing again this week, after a rather abbreviated entry last weekend, surrounding a couple of albums from the 1980's I was listening to, that sounded as though they were twenty-years ahead of their time. This week, I will be talking about the "Psychology of security" if you will and the "paranoia" surrounding it!. It should be dully noted, that this weeks entry was inspired by a rather "elegant rant", but some poster on "Slashdot" a couple of days ago, that was being blown out proportion (you can look up the post yourself on their if you would like, I won't be referencing here, because I consider it be "nonsensical" in some regard). Let's start by separating "fact" from "fiction". Afterwards, we will continue to work our way into conclusion about "news" sites on the Internet, from there on out. "Fact" vs. "Fiction" and some underlying "assum...