Alex pointed me at a good article on TheRegister yesterday. This article is written by John Leyden and published Tuesday 19 July 2005 and is titled "Visa cuts CardSystems over security breach". This article talks about a card processing firm that has been dumped by Visa for allowing card numbers to be disclosed from its systems. The company should not have even had the card details in its systems. The company held the data unencrypted and security vulnerabilities allowed the car data to be stolen.
Even though the article doesn't actually say that the data in question was held in a database or even if it was then whether it was an Oracle database. That said this is still an interesting article for anyone running an Oracle database and storing in that database critical data such as credit cards. It is a lesson in why credit card data should be encrypted.
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July 2005
- whilst on the subject of orablogs - version 2 is in the wings - 07/01/2005 by 07/01/2005
- A new sample installation session for Oracle Password Repository (OPR) version 1.1.8 - 07/02/2005 by 07/02/2005
- Frank talked about form-based authentication with struts - 07/04/2005 by 07/04/2005
- orablogs is back - 07/05/2005 by 07/05/2005
- 10g Release 2 allows deletion of datafiles - 07/06/2005 by 07/06/2005
- Oracle have issued a second email with another exploitable vulnerability in 10.1.0.2 in CPU 12APR - 07/07/2005 by 07/07/2005
- Paying a ransom to read your data - 07/08/2005 by 07/08/2005
- Two security bugs found and reported to Oracle in 10g Release 2 already! - 07/11/2005 by 07/11/2005
- Self signed SSL certificates with JInitiator - 07/12/2005 by 07/12/2005
- Oracle Simplifies SOA Security - 07/13/2005 by 07/13/2005
- Internet News talks about Oracles latest Critical Patch Update - 07/14/2005 by 07/14/2005
- A good German new item on CPU 12 July 2005 - 07/15/2005 by 07/15/2005
- More news on silent fixes in CPU July 2005 - 07/16/2005 by 07/16/2005
- Sun has released an alert notification (15 July 2005) about multiple security vulnerabilities in Oracle affecting SunMC - 07/19/2005 by 07/19/2005
- Oracle researcher announces high-risk database flaws - 07/20/2005 by 07/20/2005
- An Oracle spokeswoman speaks to TheAge - 07/21/2005 by 07/21/2005
- Oracle Confirms Holes in Two Latest Patch Sets - 07/22/2005 by 07/22/2005
- [Argeniss] Oracle 9R2 Unpatched vulnerability on CWM2_OLAP_AW_AWUTIL package - 07/23/2005 by 07/23/2005
- New Oracle Security Forum opened - 07/25/2005 by 07/25/2005
- Mary Ann Davidson fights back - When security researchers become the problem - 07/27/2005 by 07/27/2005
- iDefense ups the bidding for bugs - 07/28/2005 by 07/28/2005
- VeriSign boosts security with iDefense acquisition - 07/29/2005 by 07/29/2005
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