Oracle to patch 59 DB server holes The patches, due today (July 13, 2010), will address flaws that could lead to malicious hacker attacks without requiring user authentication.

While most of the fixes for Java, Database, and MySQL are run-of-the-mill, four are rated critical if the targeted user has administrator privileges Oracle issued a gargantuan quarterly patch ...

Both Oracle and SQL Server have very well-established communities. While they are different, they are also similar in many ways. All DBAs worry about the performance and security of the data and the ...

Oracle is warning users about a serious vulnerability in its database server that can give an attacker complete control of the affected machine.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage at OpenWorld to introduce the HP Oracle Database Machine and the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server.

At Oracle OpenWorld 2014 in San Francisco, Ellison demonstrated how customers can move an on-premise Oracle database to the Oracle Public Cloud in minutes without changing a single line of code.

The "Oracle TNS Poison" vulnerability, as he has dubbed it, resides in the Transparent Network Substrate Listener, which routes connections between clients and the database server.

Database giant Oracle has released a fix for a severe bug in Oracle Database Server on Windows. The Oracle Database Server bug, tagged with the identifier CVE-2018-3110, is about as severe as is ...