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:,2026-03-16:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001622.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com 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> 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z 23 Years of Oracle Security tag:,2026-03-16:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001621.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com 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> 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z Compare Oracle Autonomous Database Security to Other on-Premise Databases tag:,2026-03-16:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001620.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com 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> 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z New PFCLScan Version 2025 Released to all Customers tag:,2026-03-16:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001619.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com 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> 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z Detecting Password Guessing in Oracle using LCOUNT tag:,2026-03-16:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001618.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com 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> 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z Happy New Year 2026, Oracle Security Training, MySQL, Anniversary tag:,2026-03-16:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001617.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com 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||']')....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001617.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 24/11/25 At 02:56 PM</p> 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z Do Not Put Security Checks in an Oracle BEGIN END block tag:,2026-03-16:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001616.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com Are your organisation’s Oracle databases fully secured or are you leaving the door ajar to unwanted access, data leaks or worse? If you’re responsible for managing, designing or auditing Oracle databases, then the upcoming three-day course by Pete Finnigan is....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001616.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 11/11/25 At 10:01 AM</p> 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z Join the Oracle Security Masterclass this December in York! tag:,2026-03-16:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001615.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com I spoke about AI and Oracle security back in February in this blog - AI and Oracle Security . I asked the question can we use AI (LLM / Generative AI) in Oracle Security and if so how? The two....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001615.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 15/10/25 At 12:42 PM</p> 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z AI for Oracle Security XML::Atom::SimpleFeed 2026-03-16T13:16:14Z PeteFinnigan.com's weblog is the only weblog dedicated to Oracle security. Pete Finnigan's Oracle security weblog