June 2018 archive

Jun 20

Installing Oracle Database on ARM small single-board computer

In this article I will describe how to install an Oracle Database in a small single-board computer, making it the smallest Oracle DB server in the world! =] How is it possible? What hardware did I use? What is the performance of it? As there many questions and steps involved, I've split this article in the …

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Jun 11

Protecting Oracle Database Binaries against malicious changes

Introduction In the live sessions where I talk about Oracle Database security and vulnerabilities, I do always mention rootkits or malwares that can attack a database from either inside (via SQL injection, PL/SQL poisoning, Java leaks, etc) or externally (by changing oracle user files, such as binaries / libs / crontab / etc). To explore …

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