I promoted the IOUG/Oracle security survey a few weeks back in a post titled " An Oracle Security Survey by The IOUG and Oracle " and today i received an email from John at the IOUG to let me know....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 24/07/08 At 08:47 AM
I saw today that Kurt Van Meerbeeck who is famous for writing jDUL that became DUDE has started a blog. I have known Kurt for many years on email but only in the last couple of years have we met....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 23/07/08 At 10:45 AM
There has been a number of emails posted to the bugtraq and full-disclosure mailing lists in the last few days detaling some of the vulnerabilities fixed in the recent Oracle Critical Patch Update July 2008. It is worth detaling some....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 22/07/08 At 09:29 PM
I wrote this last night but then my email connection failed (the ISP must have been doing maintenance) so could not send before i needed to sleep. I am teaching my two day class " How to perform an Oracle....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 21/07/08 At 10:01 AM
One thing I forgot to mention the other day in my post July 2008 Critical Patch Update is out - a remote un-authenticated exploit revealed is that one of the major changes you will notice with this CPU is that....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 18/07/08 At 10:34 AM
Sentrigo have released a new version of Hedgehog called vPatch. Basically, it’s the same Hedgehog product but without the ability to create custom policies. After installation, without any configuration by the customer, Hedgehog vPatch will protect the database from known....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 17/07/08 At 09:15 PM
I covered the pre-release announcement for the July 2008 Critical Patch Update (CPU) here a few days ago in a post titled " Oracle Patch Tuesday Is Coming ". Nothing new and major this time from the perspective of the....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 16/07/08 At 01:33 PM
LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology
I've dropped off this topic for a while but I want to pick it back up before 2009 gets here. ;-) I'm changing my approach a bit. In an effort to be as fair and accurate as possible, I will be discussing the database and company (where that applies) with the company that produces the database. I'll revisit my earlier posts when I have a chance to talk
Benchmark testing - although this may be something that seems like it should be done for your own benefit it’s important to know that Microsoft requires that you get their written approval before disclosing the results to a third party.
This does NOT apply to the following applications:
.NET Framework, Class Server, Live Communications Server, Systems Center Operations Manager, SharePoint Portal Server, System Center Data Protection Manager, System Center Essentials, Systems Management Server, Virtual Server, Windows Server, Microsoft Services for Netware, Windows Services for UNIX, Windows Small Business Server
However if your software contains one or more components of the .NET Framework you may conduct internal benchmark testing of those components. You may also disclose those results. You can find the complete terms here.
I am on the train whizzing back to York at around 120mph after being down in sunny London all day at the UKOUG Archive and purge special event conference. I was presenting there on the subject of archive and purge....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 15/07/08 At 06:12 PM
LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology
Do you know what a tag line is? It's those nifty phrases that come after a product or brand to get your attention. Like "Quality is job 1" or "Have it your way". Some of those tag lines really become part of the universal meme. Here are a few tag lines I'd like to see.
Oracle - Expensive. Because we can be.
Oracle - If it's not part of
Laszlo Toth has released a new version of his famous Oracle password cracker woraauthbf. This is version 0.22. The main page for the woraauthbf password cracker describes the tool and its use. The latest C source code can be downloaded....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 14/07/08 At 02:14 PM
When you buy a Microsoft product of any kind, it will come with a summary of technical limitations which will enable the software to work in specific ways - even though these limitations are no longer included in the Product Use Right documentation - they cannot be ignored.
Each product has its own set of capabilities as well as licensing guidelines for its use. There is a great table available here that should answer many of your questions as to what you can do with each product.
Details such as how many processors are being run on your Microsoft product will affect its licensing requirement and must be taken into account should the need arise to make any changes.
One more thing to be on the lookout for when preparing your software asset management plan.
LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology
Larry Ellison is a technology leader. I think that's generally accepted. Some people might not like him, but you can't really deny what he has done with Oracle. Larry apparently has one giant weakness though. He's way ahead of his time. I ran across this <a href="http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-
I'm a productive, tax paying citizen again!
LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology
As you might know, last week I published an entry saying that I was looking for a job. I have to say I got a great response, both here on the blog and direct emails. I got great
I saw a news post the other day via google and made a note to mention it here as its a very interesting development. The post is titled " nCipher to Provide Encryption Key Management for Oracle Database 11g....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 12/07/08 At 08:38 AM