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Thursday, October 26th

Unbreakable Linux


Oracle are now claiming to have Unbreakable Linux. See http://www.oracle.com/index.html and http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_oct/Oracle-Linux-Program.html

They say Redhat customers will be able to get all their patches and support from Oracle.

Oracle can't get their own patches right and out on time - what on earth are they thinking?

Didn't they learn from their last Unbreakable campaign?

david on 10.26.06 @ 03:06 AM CST [link]

Thursday, October 5th

The Oracle Hacker's Handbook


Today I finished the manuscript for the Oracle Hacker's Handbook. It's a follow on from the Oracle section in the Database Hacker's Handbook, and I cover a number of new areas including Defeating Virtual Private Databases, PLSQL Race Conditions and Indirect Privilege Escalation to DBA. I cover attacking the Oracle Application Server PL/SQL Gateway and methods of bypassing database enforced access control. I skim over the stuff covered in the Database Hacker's Hanbook because I don't want people to feel that they only needed half the book because the rest was covered elsewhere. I enjoyed writing it - I hope you guys enjoy reading it.

david on 10.05.06 @ 07:40 PM CST [link]