Pete Finnigan's Oracle security weblog

Oracle TDE and Oracle ACE and Website

Firstly I was very pleased to announce that I have been made an Oracle ACE Pro again for the year to come. I just received the Oracle ACE tee shirt, polo shirt, jacket and of course the ACE Certificate. The....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 03/10/24 At 10:44 AM

What Should you do if your Oracle Database is Hacked or Breached?

It has been a while since my last blog post as we have been incredibly busy here with customers work, new versions of our products and from a personal point of view moving house. I just got an email from....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 19/09/24 At 12:27 PM

Would you Pay to Speak at a Conference?

I was approached by a lady on LinkedIn a few weeks ago to ask me if I would speak at a conference in another country. I said that I was interested and asked for more details and importantly do they....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 28/08/24 At 09:24 AM

Passwords in Scripts and Environment Variables

There was a post a few days ago on LinkedIn by Johannes Michler about easily passing passwords to adop via a shell script when patching E-Business Suite. This script sets the password for the E-Business Suite APPS user, SYSTEM and....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 28/08/24 At 09:24 AM

Searching Base64 Encoded text for a clear text string

I had an issue to solve where I needed to find if some base64 encoded text included a clear text string which was of course encoded in the source data. I needed to search hundreds of XML files where some....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 12/08/24 At 07:50 AM

Write An Interpreter in PL/SQL - Adding More Features

Just a short post about the PL/SQL parser and interpreter that I have been developing. As I have said in recent posts I am going to release a set of articles about the development of this interpreter in PL/SQL. I....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 01/08/24 At 01:01 PM

Can We Remove IF Statements from PL/SQL?

I like PL/SQL and I am always playing around with it or writing tools for use in security audits in PL/SQL or trying to do things that are not normal with PL/SQL such as writing an interpreter. One thing I....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 26/07/24 At 09:22 AM

Protect and Secure Your PL/SQL Code

Do you develop PL/SQL? Is your Oracle PL/SQL protected? My name is Pete Finnigan and in the next few minutes I will show you how you can protect you PL/SQL investment from theft. We can: Stop people stealing your ideas....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 23/07/24 At 03:14 PM

Extreme PL/SQL - An Interpreter for a Simple Language

I talked at a high level a few weeks ago about Extreme PL/SQL and gave a brief look at an interpreter I have been creating for a simple language based on BASIC. I have been keeping notes in a Word....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 17/07/24 At 12:00 PM