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:,2026-01-15:%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> 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z tag:,2026-01-15:%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> 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z tag:,2026-01-15:%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> 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z tag:,2026-01-15:%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> 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z tag:,2026-01-15:%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> 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z tag:,2026-01-15:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001614.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com If i want to create layered security in a database around something such as specific data or to protect access to a resource or perhaps control access to a privilege then we can create a security layer using standard features....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001614.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 24/09/25 At 08:37 AM</p> 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z tag:,2026-01-15:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001613.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com I have just been notified that I have had two sessions accepted for the UKOUG conference from 30th November to 2nd December 2025 at the East Side Rooms in Birmingham. My first session is called Fuzzing PL/SQL and is overviewed....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001613.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 22/09/25 At 04:41 PM</p> 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z tag:,2026-01-15:%2Fweblog%2Farchives%2F00001612.htm Pete Finnigan pete\@petefinnigan.com The 21st anniversary of this blog is coming up on the 20th September 2025. I started this blog on the 20th of September 2004 and it has been doing well ever since. I write almost exclusively on the subject of....<a href="/weblog/archives/00001612.htm">[Read More]</a> <p>Posted by Pete On 10/09/25 At 11:55 AM</p> 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z XML::Atom::SimpleFeed 2026-01-15T15:14:14Z PeteFinnigan.com's weblog is the only weblog dedicated to Oracle security.