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SourceForge serves up malware-infected phpMyAdmin toolkit

JB

You've got a MySQL database. That brings plenty of administrative challenges, including watching out for configuration problems, vulnerabilities, exploits and patches.

You decide that phpMyAdmin, a MySQL administration toolkit, would be useful. That brings plenty of challenges, watching out for configuration problems, vulnerabilities, exploits and patches.

To run phpMyAdmin, you need a web server. That brings plenty of challenges, watching out for configuration problems, vulnerabilities, exploits and patches.

And to use phpMyAdmin, you need a web browser. (I shan't say it a fourth time.)

Phew! There's a lot to watch out for when you run a LAMP stack. All that administration burden in order to ease your MySQL administrative burden in order to keep on top of your database security headaches.

(Reminds me of the old dictionary joke, recursion [mass noun]: see recursion.)