Oracle patches 109 vulnerabilities
Oracle’s Critical Patch Update for October 2012 patches 109 vulnerabilities across hundreds of Oracle products. There are several patches that require immediate …
Oracle Solaris 11.1 released
Oracle announced Oracle Solaris 11.1, delivering over 300 new performance and feature enhancements. Oracle Solaris 11 is the first cloud OS that allows customers to build …
Oracle releases MySQL 5.6 RC
Oracle announced the availability of the Release Candidate for MySQL 5.6, the popular open source database. MySQL 5.6 RC provides enhanced linear scalability, helping users to …
Oracle confirms existence of another critical Java flaw
When Oracle finally patched the CVE-2012-4681 Java 0-day that was being actively exploited in the wild, Polish firm Security Explorations immediately piped up to say they …
Oracle patches Java 0-day, researchers say there’s another one
Oracle has finally issued an update for Java 7 (v 1.7.0_07) which solves the problem of the CVE-2012-4681 vulnerability (which actually consists of two distinct flaws). The …
Effective MySQL Backup and Recovery
Effective MySQL: Backup and Recovery offers a no-nonsense approach to one of the most critical tasks of an operational DBA—performing, testing, and verifying backup and …
Oracle releases 87 security fixes
The Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) Advisory for July 2012 contains 87 security fixes for various products across their portfolio. This advisory is a bit of déjà vu …
Oracle addresses 0-day “TNS Poison”
Update: Edited to reflect that Oracle has released a configuration workaround, not a patch. This week Oracle released an out-of-band patch for the CVE-2012-1675 vulnerability …
Oracle fixes 88 security vulnerabilities
Oracle’s Critical Patch Update for April 2012 fixes 88 security vulnerabilities across the product line. The amount of fixes isn’t really a big concern; it’s …
Oracle patches 78 vulnerabilities
Oracle publishes Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) on a quarterly schedule. Oracle released its January edition with patches for a majority of their product line: Oracle Solaris: …
Oracle Solaris 11: The first cloud OS
Oracle today released Solaris 11, the first Cloud OS. Oracle Solaris 11 is designed to meet the security, performance and scalability requirements of cloud-based deployments …
Oracle Public Cloud released
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced the Oracle Public Cloud, a set of integrated services that provide customers with subscription-based, self-service access to Oracle Fusion …
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