I have been a subscriber on the DBA-Village newsletter for quite a few years now and every Sunday night I get an email that lists at the top some useful links, a pole and all of the threads on the forum since the last email. DBA-Village is quite a useful site but to view the content you must register. http://www.dba-village.com/village/dvp_register.RegistrationForm - (broken link) The registration is free.
There was a useful link this week to a short PL/SQL function that can be used to return the MD5 sum of a string. Running a checksum of any data held in the database that is critical can be a useful thing to do. Also check summing the data dictionary or just the PL/SQL held there can also be a useful task to ensure that the dictionary has not been altered by a hacker for his own purposes.
The page on DBA-Village is titled http://www.dba-village.com/village/dvp_tips.TipDetails?TipIdA=2552 - (broken link) Returning MD5 hash, the function is clean and simple.
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This is the weblog for Pete Finnigan. Pete works in the area of Oracle security and he specialises in auditing Oracle databases for security issues. This weblog is aimed squarely at those interested in the security of their Oracle databases.
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May 2005
- A free script to find hidden users in your database - 05/01/2005 by 05/01/2005
- Alex has updated his Oracle exploits page to add 5 more exploit codes - 05/02/2005 by 05/02/2005
- alpha copies of two chapters of Tom's new book are available - 05/04/2005 by 05/04/2005
- Another nice flashback paper - 05/05/2005 by 05/05/2005
- Tom writes about anonymous postings - 05/07/2005 by 05/07/2005
- Richard talks about diagnostics support pack and applications collection tool (ACT) - 05/09/2005 by 05/09/2005
- A great example of information leakage! - 05/10/2005 by 05/10/2005
- A nice paper on latch internals - 05/11/2005 by 05/11/2005
- Nice list of Oracle's default ports - 05/12/2005 by 05/12/2005
- A select only user causing locks? - 05/13/2005 by 05/13/2005
- Marcel-Jan has an interesting tool on his site called SQL-Gotcha - 05/15/2005 by 05/15/2005
- nice paper by Doug Burns on Oracle parallel execution tuning - 05/16/2005 by 05/16/2005
- SQLGotcha is on freshmeat - 05/17/2005 by 05/17/2005
- A good paper on Oracle's random number generator - 05/18/2005 by 05/18/2005
- A good description of some of the Oracle default accounts - 05/20/2005 by 05/20/2005
- orablogs is back - 05/21/2005 by 05/21/2005
- A good list of Oracle discussion resources - 05/22/2005 by 05/22/2005
- IDG were scheduled to interview Oracle's CSO - 05/24/2005 by 05/24/2005
- Scarlet Pruitt's interview with Mary Ann Davidson is out - 05/25/2005 by 05/25/2005
- Alex is to talk at ITUnderground Warsaw and DOAG Freiburg - 05/26/2005 by 05/26/2005
- A new short paper on Alex's site - How to change XMLDB Ports - 05/28/2005 by 05/28/2005
- Chris was also talking about Alex's 42 bugs found in Metalink - 05/30/2005 by 05/30/2005
- Alex has released his paper on metalink hacking - 05/31/2005 by 05/31/2005
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