Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com Copyright PeteFinnigan.com Ltd 2005, All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged tag:,2025-07-03:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001599.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com Emad just made a blog post - Oracle 23ai Privilege Escalation From GRANT ANY ROLE to DBA Role - that shows how he escalated from GRANT ANY ROLE to DBA. There are some issues with his example but I will....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001599.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 03/07/25 At 09:25 AM</p> 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z tag:,2025-07-03:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001598.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com Some brief news on Oracle and Security and personal news!! I was emailed a couple of weeks or so ago that I was awarded membership of the Oracle ACE program for now until end of May 2026 and yesterday I....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001598.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 26/06/25 At 09:45 AM</p> 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z tag:,2025-07-03:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001597.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com This is a short history of our PFCLScan product and therefore also a history of the other apps now built on top of PFCLScan such as PFCLObfuscate , PFCLCode , PFCLForensics and more. Obviously after such a long time and....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001597.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 15/05/25 At 10:15 AM</p> 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z tag:,2025-07-03:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001596.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com It has been a long time coming but I have finally got this website running on HTTPS / SSL. Google have been pushing webmasters and site owners to move to HTTPS for more than 10 years. Google in fact stated....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001596.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 13/05/25 At 02:07 PM</p> 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z tag:,2025-07-03:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001595.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com One of the goals of creating an interpreter written in PL/SQL to execute a custom language was for our use in our tools. We wanted to be able to ship PL/SQL and customise it after its deployed without re-compiling the....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001595.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 14/04/25 At 12:11 PM</p> 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z tag:,2025-07-03:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001594.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com In the first blog in this series we discussed the main issue with using DBMS_CRYPTO to encrypt data within the database. This is the lack of key management provided by Oracle natively for use with this package. I had intended....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001594.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 07/04/25 At 01:25 PM</p> 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z tag:,2025-07-03:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001593.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com I often get asked how to use DBMS_CRYPTO to encrypt data in the Oracle database. Or I used to be asked how to use DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT when it was the go-to encryption in an Oracle database. Before we go far; this....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001593.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 02/04/25 At 02:22 PM</p> 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z tag:,2025-07-03:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001592.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com Just an update as I have not posted too many blogs recently. I have a bag log of blog ideas to write on technical subjects directly relating to Oracle security so please watch out for those by subscribing / following....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001592.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 19/03/25 At 03:00 PM</p> 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z XML::Atom::SimpleFeed 2025-07-03T09:30:31Z PeteFinnigan.com's weblog is the only weblog dedicated to Oracle security.