Pete Finnigan's Oracle security weblog

Turkey, Germany, York, Holland and the Oak Table book

I was away most of last week to teach my class How to perform a security audit of an Oracle database in Istanbul, Turkey including the travel out and back. It was a good class, very well attended and some....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 02/02/10 At 06:37 PM

The Oracle listener password algorithm

There has been a thread on my forum for a couple of years discussing the Oracle listener password algorithm. The thread is titled " Key and algo for encrypting the listener password ". This thread discussed the issue of being....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 01/02/10 At 07:39 PM

Two new Oracle root kits

Dennis has made two great posts about Oracle rootkits on his blog. The first is about creating a backdoor into the Oracle binaries and logon process/function by replacing the C library function kziaia() so that if the user presented is....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 20/01/10 At 02:06 PM

Conferences, webinars, trainings, new training dates.....

It has been a very busy last few months; lots of travelling, teaching and consulting. We have also spent time working with our new partners and also working to set up new country partners. PFCLScan has also taken some of....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 19/01/10 At 03:21 PM

Training in York, England and Washington DC and adverts

I have added the registration page for the upcoming Oracle security training - how to perform a security audit of an Oracle database to be held in York on February the 9th and 10th in England. The registration page gives....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 05/01/10 At 06:34 PM

Hiding password hashes and a new sha1 Oracle password cracker

There was a good blog post titled " The need to ensure that hashed password values are safe " picked up via my Oracle blogs aggregator that discusses Dennis's FPGA cracker and also the importance of not letting the password....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 04/01/10 At 04:26 PM

Belated Christmas wishes and a happy new year to all readers

Well it has been a while since my last blog entry - almost two weeks in fact, xmas added onto heavy work loads all gets in the way of blogging...:-) I still have a backlog of things to blog about....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 29/12/09 At 12:40 PM

The Oak Table book should be off to print

I got my two chapters of the new Oak Table book " Expert Oracle Practices: Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table " as final proofs from Apress today for a final check and send back; the book should be....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 17/12/09 At 07:35 PM