Security Leftovers
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (awstats), Oracle (dpdk, libxml2, postgresql:10, systemd, and virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel), Red Hat (kernel), Slackware (git, httpd, libXpm, and mozilla), SUSE (libzypp-plugin-appdata), and Ubuntu (git, libxpm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-oem-5.14, and ruby2.3).
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Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox | CISA
Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox ESR and Firefox. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.
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How to harden your WordPress MySQL server | WP White Security
WordPress, the most popular CMS, runs on MySQL, the most popular database out there. Spending some time to ensure your MySQL installation and WordPress database configuration installation is adequately hardened against common attack vectors can help you reduce risks. This is especially true if you are managing your MySQL server yourself.