Security, Compliance, and Identity Management

There was an interesting questuion on my forum a couple of days ago titled ” its legal to host unwrap? “; bear in mind the title means the opposite, i.e. is it illegal not its illegal. These semantics do not….[Read More] Posted by Pete On 03/12/09 At 08:36 PM

I got an email from Dennis Yurichev at the beginning of last week with an article he has written about his FPGA based password cracker explaining how he created it, what tools are hardware are used and how at a….[Read More] Posted by Pete On 07/12/09 At 12:33 PM

Andrea Purificato (Bunker) emailed me yesterday to let me know that he has posted two exploit scripts for the CTXSYS.DRVTABC.CREATE_TABLES bug for 9i and 10g. He has posted two versions of the exploit. The first is the traditional one and….[Read More] Posted by Pete On 30/11/09 At 09:38 AM

I have not posted for a few days as I have been in Helsinki, Finland teaching my class ” How to perform a security audit of an Oracle database ” and I had not carried my email client and web….[Read More] Posted by Pete On 26/11/09 At 07:11 PM

I saw a post yesterday on my Oracle security forum by DSU titled ” Oracle Security Tools (GUI) ” that talks about a new Russian Oracle security tool written to test Oracle vulnerabilities. The tool is limited at the moment….[Read More] Posted by Pete On 28/11/09 At 06:47 PM

Last night while discussing with my wife (who is my anti-geek to my geek) ways her library patrons might be able to save files they work on in the library's computer lab besides floppy disks – I started talking about services like Dropbox. Her answer was "you mean like storing these files in the cloud?". [...]

I needed to test to see how Posterous would handle posting to my Oracle blog, Twitter and now Linked-In. And gave me a good chance to write a quick update on how I really like Mozilla Thunderbird 3 for email. I had used Thunderbird 2 before but I had given it up – in fact [...]

I'm doing a self-paced ADF 11g training class. And I wanted to use version control to make it easier to recover from mistakes. While I have been playing with GIT – I wanted to use Subversion since it has native support in JDeveloper. Initially I was looking at ProjectLocker  which offers hosting for Subversion (or [...]

One of the comments from an earlier post on Google's ChromeOS had mentioned there was a way to try it out using virtual machines. I finally got a chance to take it for a spin this morning using the image built by the team at GDGT. GDGT is an interesting site itself – basically a [...]

Oracle released 11g R1 Patchset 1 has now been released on all supported platforms. Posted via email from Virtual Identity Dialogue