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LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology This one is an oopsy. I am playing with 11g again. Having fun too. I'll be writing up some of my experiences shortly. One of the things I have been playing with is Heterogeneous Services. Oracle makes connecting to remote databases (of a non-Oracle persuasion) incredibly easy. Anyway, I

Practical Oracle Security

• Size: 250 pages
• Paperback: $49.95
• PDF (from Syngress.com): $19.98
• Publisher: Syngress (August 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597491985
• ISBN-13: 978-1597491983

Let me start this review by saying I have never heard of Syngress, the publisher. From a little research, I found

Hopefully, this story is just about finished. I have written several times about the Fidelity/Certegy data breach. Well, it looks like at least one of the people involved has pleaded guilty. According

Remember a while back when I wrote about a data breach at Certegy/Fidelity National Information Services? In that entry, I explained how the original estimate of 2.3 million records stolen was actually more like 8.5 million. Guess what, the same company has now managed

Has EBay or paypal been hacked? A co-worker of mine lost thousands of dollars last night. Another co-worker has been notified by paypal of problem transactions (he was notified by phone, not email) that he didn't make. And now, there's a headline on Mashable, eBay Hacked??. According to mashable, We're getting reports in our

If you remember a few weeks ago, I wrote in a couple of blog entries about a data breach at a local company, DBA accused of stealing 2.3 Million Customer Records and Remember

I did not know XPath injection even existed. Kind of makes sense that it does though. XPath is a way to address specific nodes in an XML document. For example, in this document: <doc> <Title>ABC Document</Title> </doc> I would address the Title element as: /doc/Title Kind of like walking through directories on a disk. Of course, XPath can get much more complicated

Further to my post last week Hackers Intrude on Social Communities, yesterday Google reported that their blogging service "Blogger" was hacked. About that Fake Post A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to

Party crashers annoy me. These are people that invite themselves where they are not welcome. Normally, party crashing results from poor social skills. Though their presence may be irritating, their intrusion is benign. In the virtual world, "parties" are

SMiShing isn't the sound made when you step in a muddy puddle of water. It is spam received through an SMS message. The message contains a URL that leads to a fraudulent site used for phishing. With new and exciting