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Oracle Facing Zero-Day Onslaught?

Nov 28, 2006
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[From eSecurityPlanet]

Oracle database users take heed: December may be a tough month. A security researcher is warning of a week of Oracle database bugs.

The revelation comes after Oracle’s recent quarterly patch cycle for its namesake database. It typically yields double-digits’ worth of fixes for security flaws. For example, Oracle released an update at the end of October for some 63 flaws in Oracle databases. But even more flaws are lurking that have not yet been disclosed, according to Cesar Cerrudo, founder and CEO of the Argeniss Security Research Team. Now, he’s taking up the cause.

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