Millions of MySQL Servers are Publicly Exposed

More than 3.6 million MySQL servers are publicly exposed on the internet, security researchers noted this week. Shadow Server Foundation researchers reported that they simply issued a MySQL connection request on default port 3306 to see if a server responded with a MySQL Server Greeting, rather than intrusive requests that pentesters use to break into […]

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