How to Keep Top-Secret Documents Off the Internet

I don’t know about you, but I don’t have any top-secret documents. But, suppose you use Quicken. Suppose you have a secret plan to become the world’s next billionaire. Suppose you don’t want the NSA prying into the photo collection of your, um, kids. Well, don’t connect your computer to the Internet.

Some people may […]

Hacking Attack Rates

If you are hooked up to the Internet (at home, at a local coffee shop, at an airport, wherever), there is a constant barrage of Internet traffic trying to get to your PC. Hackers are trying to get into your computer. They might be in China, in Russia, in the US, in your own neighborhood, […]

Potential Logging of E-Business Suite Passwords

Late last year in my work for Jibe Consulting, I detected a password disclosure issue with E-Business Suite R12, and reported it to Oracle. After I made sure that Oracle Support could replicate the issue, Oracle E-Business Suite Development worked the issue. The password disclosure issue has now been addressed in the July 2013 CPU […]