A weakness in an Oracle login system—used in the company’s databases which grant access to sensitive information—makes it trivial for attackers to crack user passwords and gain entry without ...

nCipher (News - Alert) recently announced the integration of its nShield and netHSM key management solutions with Transparent Data Encryption, part of the Oracle Database 11g Advanced Security option.

Network encryption is one of the most important security hardening strategies to be adopted in any enterprise infrastructure. It will ensure confidential data transmitted over the wire is encrypted ...

Data encryption performs two purposes: it protects data against internal prying eyes, and it protects data against external threats (hacking, theft of backup tapes, etc.) Encryption in the database ...

It is important to recover your lost password on the Oracle database, as not having it would hamper your productivity and block your access to the database, resulting in security issues. To recover or ...

Oracle has declined to patch a critical vulnerability in its flagship database product, leaving customers vulnerable to attacks that siphon confidential information from corporate servers and execute ...

Administrators who support Java applications and various Oracle databases should pay close attention to the latest quarterly security update from Oracle, as more than a third of the security fixes ...

Database encryption can add a valuable layer of security to critical data stores, but only if the encryption is done well. As the number of database encryption deployments increases, so, too, does the ...