/weblog/entries PeteFinnigan.com's weblog is the only weblog dedicated to Oracle security. en-gb Copyright PeteFinnigan.com Ltd 2005, All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged 2026-05-11T12:39:43Z Pete Finnigan (mailto:webmaster\@petefinnigan.com) Pete Finnigan (mailto:pete\@petefinnigan.com) PeteFinnigan.com's weblog is the only weblog dedicated to Oracle security. Pete Finnigan's Oracle security weblog http://www.petefinnigan.com/images/company_logo_1.gif /weblog/entries /weblog/archives/00001625.htm I am slightly late with this one as the event itself was on the 7th May 2026. The World Password Day 2026 is a day to try and highlight that passwords are weak. An article I saw on line said....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001625.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 11/05/26 At 12:37 PM</p> /weblog/archives/00001624.htm I did a presentation at the UKOUG conference at the East Side rooms in Birmingham at the end of 2025. The focus of this talk was to highlight the problem of securing data held in an Oracle database without using....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001624.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 05/05/26 At 11:25 AM</p> /weblog/archives/00001623.htm I have not had chance to write any detailed blogs of late as we have been very busy with paying work and also working on our software products as we released version 2025 of PFCLScan and version 2026 is very....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001623.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 20/04/26 At 09:34 AM</p> /weblog/archives/00001622.htm It is just slightly over 23 years since I started PeteFinnigan.com Limited to focus just on helping people secure data in Oracle databases. The company was incorporated on the 12th February 2003, so 23 years ago. I started the company....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001622.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 16/03/26 At 01:14 PM</p> /weblog/archives/00001621.htm I published a blog post back in 2024 where i used PFCLScan Version 2024 to scan various databases from 11g to 23c/ai. The blog is Compare the Database Security of Oracle Database 11g, 12c, 18c, 19c, 21c and 23c/ai and....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001621.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 25/02/26 At 09:59 AM</p> /weblog/archives/00001620.htm We have just released a new version of PFCLScan at the end of last week. This is version 2025. PFCLScan is our database security tool for the Oracle database. There are a lot of changes and fixes to this version....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001620.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 02/02/26 At 02:43 PM</p> /weblog/archives/00001619.htm I want to briefly discuss how we might detect that an attacker is trying to guess passwords and trying to connect to an Oracle database. One simple way that I have been aware of for many years, decades even is....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001619.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 15/01/26 At 03:08 PM</p> /weblog/archives/00001618.htm I want to wish a very happy New year for 2026 to all of our customers, web site visitors and all of our social media connections and likers and commenters. Thanks for all of your support over the years!! We....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001618.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 13/01/26 At 12:02 PM</p>