I found an interesting short paper this morning about some of the not too well known facts about passwords. The paper http://www.oriolecorp.com/papers/passwords.html - (broken link) Oracle passwords : A few not too well known facts covers things I knew about previously and have written about previously but this paper brings some good facts together in one place.
It shows the undocumented (but everyone knows about it) VALUES version of the ALTER USER statement, it also explains very well why the character set that can be used for passwords is limited and it also gives advice on embedding passwords in files by using control characters in the password.
A good short paper, worth reading.
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November 2004
- Another good paper by Howard Rogers on read-only tables - 11/01/2004 by 11/01/2004
- The 9.2.0.6 patch set is out - 11/02/2004 by 11/02/2004
- Nice four part paper on label security by Jim Czuprynski - 11/03/2004 by 11/03/2004
- Howard Rogers has a new ebook out - 11/04/2004 by 11/04/2004
- Patrik Karlsson releases OScanner - A new free Oracle security vulnerability scanner - 11/05/2004 by 11/05/2004
- Post on ORACLE-L : Exploring Oracle November 2004 and REMOTE_OS_AUTHENT - 11/06/2004 by 11/06/2004
- Two great papers and tools by Tim Gorman - 11/07/2004 by 11/07/2004
- A lot of new pages on my site - 11/08/2004 by 11/08/2004
- A new Oracle default password checking tool is available - 11/09/2004 by 11/09/2004
- Small update to the default password check scripts - 11/10/2004 by 11/10/2004
- Colin Maxwell talks about securing web services using JDev and WS-Security - 11/11/2004 by 11/11/2004
- Hack notes books - 11/12/2004 by 11/12/2004
- Interesting discussion on DBMS_SUPPORT versions - 11/13/2004 by 11/13/2004
- Exploits and blog software - 11/14/2004 by 11/14/2004
- Default password lists and updates - 11/15/2004 by 11/15/2004
- 600 Oracle default usernames/passwords available - 11/16/2004 by 11/16/2004
- Two more "takes" on the Gartner / Oracle exploit information release reluctance - 11/17/2004 by 11/17/2004
- An interesting case of information disclosure - 11/18/2004 by 11/18/2004
- Three more news sites are talking about the new patch schedule - 11/19/2004 by 11/19/2004
- More news on the new patch schedule - 11/20/2004 by 11/20/2004
- Frank Nimphius talks about showing/hiding UIX components based on isUserInRole() - 11/21/2004 by 11/21/2004
- Amis blog - shows how to create a certificate and configure OC4J to use it - 11/22/2004 by 11/22/2004
- Oracle secalert_us have sent out emails to tell some customers about the quarterly patch schedule - 11/23/2004 by 11/23/2004
- And still more news stories - 11/24/2004 by 11/24/2004
- Colin Maxwell talks about reducing the scope for encryption - 11/25/2004 by 11/25/2004
- James Morle's book is available as a free pdf - 11/26/2004 by 11/26/2004
- Edward Stangler talks about running catpatch - 11/27/2004 by 11/27/2004
- Looks like 9.2.0.6 is available on more platforms now - 11/28/2004 by 11/28/2004
- A good list of Oracle security check items - 11/29/2004 by 11/29/2004
- Edward Stanglers next post in the not running catpatch.sql series - 11/30/2004 by 11/30/2004
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