Pete Finnigan's Oracle security weblog

Securing Data in Oracle without Cost Options

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:26:44 +0000

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....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 05/05/26 At 11:25 AM

Fuzzing PL/SQL

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:26:44 +0000

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....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 20/04/26 At 09:34 AM

23 Years of Oracle Security

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:26:44 +0000

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....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 16/03/26 At 01:14 PM

Compare Oracle Autonomous Database Security to Other on-Premise Databases

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:26:44 +0000

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....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 25/02/26 At 09:59 AM

New PFCLScan Version 2025 Released to all Customers

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:26:44 +0000

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....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 02/02/26 At 02:43 PM

Detecting Password Guessing in Oracle using LCOUNT

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:26:44 +0000

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....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 15/01/26 At 03:08 PM

Happy New Year 2026, Oracle Security Training, MySQL, Anniversary

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:26:44 +0000

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....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 13/01/26 At 12:02 PM

Do Not Put Security Checks in an Oracle BEGIN END block

Tue, 05 May 2026 11:26:44 +0000

PL/SQL packages can have a single BEGIN/EXCEPTION/END block as part of the package such as: create or replace package body block as procedure test is begin dbms_output.put_line('Hello from test()'); end; begin dbms_output.put_line('Hello from begin; end'); exception when others then dbms_output.put_line('BEGIN:['||sqlerrm||']')....[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 24/11/25 At 02:56 PM