Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:34 PM/CST
Exactly five years after the Slammer worm wreaked havoc on the Internet, database security guru David Litchfield has come up with an idea that might help pinpoint the author of the worm code. Litchfield (right), who was credited with discovering...
Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:18 PM/CST
Oracle database administrators, start your patching engines. According to the Redwood City, Calif., vendor's Critical Patch Update pre-release announcement, the first quarterly update for 2008 will contain 27 security fixes across hundreds of Oracle products. [ SEE: Oracle Security...
Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:37 PM/CST
Cisco has joined Oracle and others supporting the Common Vulnerability Scoring Standard, but unless Microsoft joins the party, the flaw rating scheme will continue to flounder.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 1:06 AM/CST
UPDATED: Cesar Cerrudo has suddenly cancelled plans to release daily zero-day flaws in Oracle databases during the first week in December. Just days before the project was due to start, Cerrudo announced that "due to many problems," the WoODB (Week of Oracle Database Bugs) has been scrapped.
Monday, November 20, 2006 4:29 PM/CST
On the heels of HD Moore's Month of Browser Bugs and LMH's Month of Kernel Bugs, a database security research expert plans to start a new project dedicated to releasing zero-day flaws in Oracle database server and application products...
