How to Protect your Oracle Database from Hackers

I was attending the NorthWest Oracle Users Group meeting on Monday. At the beginning of the conference, there was the usual conference business and announcements. The speaker announced that the 1:00 PM technical talk was cancelled due to illness. I looked at the schedule, and thought: Dang. There is nothing else that I want to […]

Windows domain accounts — insecure by default?

Today, I was working on an issue at a client site. I was given a Windows domain account and a personal certificate to login to their VPN. I don’t know how the Windows domain account was created, but I’m assuming that it was nothing special.

Once I connected to VPN, I Remote Desktop’ed into the […]