Secure method beside phpMyAdmin for remote mysql Recently, one of my centos linux servers was hacked and the cause of due to phpMyAdmin. It was said due to this problem PhpMyAdmin vulnerability CVE-2011-2505 (http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2505). What is the best way to login securely into my mysql db? Any idea please.
Use a VPN connection to connect to the network which is hosting the database server.

A database server should never be directly accessible from the public Internet.  If it is directly accessible it will be broken in to. It's just a mater of time.