I was surfing this evening for news of the latest Oracle Critical Patch Update and found a few news items to bring you. The first from John Leyden of The Register is titled "Snort plugs Back Orifice as Oracle issues mega-fix". This report details the 85 bug fixes presented by Oracle and describes the patch as an Uber fix. Secunia describes the patch fixes as moderately critical.
The second news item on ComputerWorld written by Peter Sayer is titled "Oracle patches 88 holes with quarterly security update - The patches affect versions of its database software from 8i onward" and covers much the same ground, except that Peter says there were 88 fixes as opposed to the 85 John quotes. No matter it’s still a big patch.
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- Good thread on Oracle brute force password cracking and OUG Scotland - 10/03/2005 by 10/03/2005
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- Link to David Litchfields original post - 10/06/2005 by 10/06/2005
- Slight correction to the HTMLDB advisories - 10/07/2005 by 10/07/2005
- Some more posts on bugtraq about David Litchfields open letter to Oracle - 10/08/2005 by 10/08/2005
- WebGoat an application to learn how to hack! - 10/10/2005 by 10/10/2005
- Security, SOX and Oracle Incentive Compensation - 10/11/2005 by 10/11/2005
- The Age talks about David Litchfields open letter to Oracle - 10/12/2005 by 10/12/2005
- Prevention and detection better than cure - 10/13/2005 by 10/13/2005
- How to encrypt/decrypt strings with the dbms_obfuscation_toolkit package - 10/14/2005 by 10/14/2005
- comments and how to re-enable them on this blog - 10/16/2005 by 10/16/2005
- CPU October 18th a few comments - 10/18/2005 by 10/18/2005
- Women who know Oracle and security - 10/19/2005 by 10/19/2005
- Easy connect identifier - 10/20/2005 by 10/20/2005
- Researcher: Oracle Patch Set Flawed Again - 10/21/2005 by 10/21/2005
- Exploit circulating for newly patched Oracle bug - It can crash an unpatched database server - 10/22/2005 by 10/22/2005
- Some fight back on Oracle security bugs - old news article - 10/26/2005 by 10/26/2005
- Josh has released a paper about the Oracle password algorithm - 10/27/2005 by 10/27/2005
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