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A hacker that goes by the name Unu has reported that he has found a SQL-injection vulnerability in an Intel website (Intel Channel Webinars) which uses a MySQL database server. Unu observed that after cracking the password for a certain user the hacker could then gain access to the server through an IP address. Unu […]

According to Iron Mountain, the 7 records-management trends for 2010 include taking control of e-mail with an archive, increased regulations in regards to protecting personal information, the role of a company’s records manager will continue to grow, usage of the cloud will become more apparent as companies start to understand the benefits of reduced physical […]

Enterprise will move data to the cloud Everyone is talking about cloud-based services and according to Slavik Microsoft will push the Azure cloud platform and SQL Azure database services. If this is the case, as noted by Slavik, we will be forced to ask the difficult question of how we protect data in cloud environments. […]

Looking back over 2009, Ingres senior engineering veep Emma McGrattan clearly admits that Ingres has had a tough year, although they did hit most targets—blaming the economy for sluggish business. Looking forward to 2010 she admits does expect business to pick up. One contributing factor for a positive outlook is Oracle’s handling of MySQL as […]

[From ServerWatch] If this past year in datacenter technology could be summed up in one word, it would be “rethinking.” For the last several years, it seemed like people just threw together datacenters all into one or more buildings, but this year, thanks to the pressures of the economy, IT managers finally stopped and took […]

[From InformationWeek] Open source code firm WSO2 has launched WSO2 Business Activity Monitor to provide visibility into services oriented architecture-based services, transactions, and workflows. The Business Activity Monitor produces event-based metrics, such as server response times and data polled by a periodic query to a running system. The information about an enterprise service or system, […]

Michael Widenius, co-creator of MySQL which is currently owned by Sun Microsystems has started a campaign to “keep the internet free”—purposely trying to prevent Oracle from buying Sun and arguing that the purchase would hurt consumers and small businesses. Mr Widenius states that “It’s not in the internet user’s interest that one key piece of […]

Kentico CMS version 5.0 has been release—stating that the development team has now integrate enterprise level functionality into this release. With this new release, CMS has been optimized to handle 1,000,000 users and 100,000 documents in the database as well and allowing for SQL server replication, something that was not available in previous releases. Also […]

If you’ve ever wanted to get started with SQL Developer but didn’t quite know where to start, a free chapter is being offered at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/sql_developer/pdf/oraclesqldev21.pdf for you to follow examples and learn by practice. The chapter does expect you have a computer with Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X installed, and that you have […]

Is your company seriously interested in protecting their structured, unstructured and semi-structured data?  This research paper, by the Aberdeen Group, discusses what best-in Class organizations are doing in regards to data loss prevention, to set them apart from the rest.  This report outlines the different strategies that companies use to safeguarding their data, and how […]

Quite simply some 30,000 social security numbers at Penn State University (PSU) became vulnerable after a malicious software attack. Said a spokeswoman for PSU, “We’re not sure if the data was accessed” and “The Social Security numbers were in archived files that people didn’t realize were on their computers,” And because of the 2006 state […]

You can now download the latest version of the Oracle Service UDDI Registry (OSR 11gR1) from the OSR OTN page and EDelivery web sites. OSR 11g has new support for WebLogic Server 11g and updated certification for hardware and software platforms. Also in the works is an updated OSR WebLogic cluster deployment doc that will […]