Amazon Redshift is fully managed Cloud Datawarehouse from AWS for running analytic workloads. Lot of customers have requirements to encrypt data in transit as part of security guidelines. Redshift provides…
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This post is applicable for hosted wordpress installations where auto-updates are disabled. Yesterday, I noticed there was blog post "Hacked by Unknown" on Askdba blog. Post was written by White…
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In Oracle database 11g, a new feature/enhancement has potential of bringing down the application due to multiple sessions hitting database with wrong password. As per Bug 7715339 - Logon failures…
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I guess most of us having My Oracle Support have got email from Oracle mentioning that Critical Patch Update January 2012 has been released. Main reason behind this is Security bug…
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Data in the database is secured by using authentication, authorization and auditing mechanism, but the information stored in the datafiles can be read using any hex-editor tools or other OS…
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Oracle 11g introduces Case-sensitive passwords for database authentication. Along with this if you wish to change the password (temporarily) and reset it back to old , you will find that…
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