Recently, François Pons, senior principal product manager at Oracle, provided a video overview of the Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT), which helps identify areas where a database ...

Database security is crucial to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data. It builds customer trust, helps comply with regulations, and reduces the risks associated with ...

In April, Oracle's patch update included 136 fixes for vulnerabilities affecting software including Oracle Database Server, Java, MySQL and Solaris -- as well as one security problem dating back ...

David Litchfield, well-known within the Oracle community as one of the world's top database security researchers, lived up to his reputation at Black Hat USA last week when he shined the light on ...

A private security research firm goes public with details after waiting more than 700 days for Oracle to release patches.

Oracle’s lack of attention on databases may be confined to its flagship database, since the CPU did not neglect MySQL. Of the 31 new security fixes for Oracle MySQL, four could be exploited ...

Oracle database security has received pointed criticism through the years and releases, which has slowly improved the architecture and closed exploitable weaknesses. For many, these improvements are ...