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Oracle buys Dyn

November 21, 2016

Oracle today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Dyn, a cloud-based Internet Performance and DNS provider that monitors, controls, and optimizes Internet …

Post-pumpkin Patch Tuesday: What’s in store for November

November 3, 2016

There has been a lot of activity since October’s Patch Tuesday. During that short period of time, Oracle released its quarterly CPU, including an update for Java JRE; Adobe …

Oracle-owned MICROS PoS systems vendor breached

August 9, 2016

MICROS, the point-of-sale payment systems vendor owned by Oracle, has suffered a data breach, and there are indicators that point to the infamous Carbanak (aka Anunak) …

Oracle splats 276 bugs with mammoth Critical Patch Update

July 20, 2016

In case you missed it, Oracle’s July 2016 Critical Patch Update is out, and it’s bigger than ever before. It plugs 276 security issues across hundreds of Oracle …

Oracle patches 136 flaws in 49 products

April 20, 2016

Oracle released the April 2016 Critical Patch Update, which provides fixes for 136 vulnerabilities in 49 products, including Java SE and MySQL, the company’s Database …

Emergency Java update plugs system compromise hole

March 24, 2016

Oracle has issued an emergency security update for Java to plug a critical flaw (CVE-2016-0636) that could be exploited by luring users to visit a web page hosting the …

Oracle pushes out emergency fix for Java SE

February 9, 2016

Oracle has patched a vulnerability (CVE-2016-0603) in Java SE (Standard Edition) 6, 7 or 8 on the Windows platform, which could be exploited by attackers looking for ways to …

Oracle announces Java plugin deprecation, death

January 28, 2016

With a short post by a member of the Java strategy team, Oracle has announced the approaching death of the hated Java plugin. “Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser …

Oracle fixes 248 vulnerabilities in January patch update

January 21, 2016

Oracle has published their Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2016. The Oracle CPU is quarterly and addresses the flaws in large Oracle’s product line, including their …

Oracle agrees to settle FTC charges it deceived consumers about Java updates

December 22, 2015

Oracle has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers about the security provided by updates to its Java Platform, Standard Edition software …

Oracle releases 154 fixes, plugs click-to-play bypass Java flaw used in attacks

October 21, 2015

Oracle has released its quarterly patch update that contains 154 security fixes for its various products.What will interest end users the most are the fixes released for Java, …

Oracle fixes Java zero-day exploited by Pawn Storm hackers

July 15, 2015

With its quarterly Critical Patch Update, Oracle has released security fixes for 193 vulnerabilities across all of its products (a good summary can be found here), including …