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 […]
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Hacking attacks happen all the time and pose a real security threat. Here are ten things you can do to protect yourself: 1) Don’t use the same password for all of your user accounts. Choose a variety of passwords, and make each one strong (no full words, use both numbers and letters). Keep your list […] Don’t use the same password for everything. If a hacker penetrates one website, and discovers your password, they could try the same password on another site (like your bank’s website). If it works, the hacker could get rich quick and you would be out of luck. So, how should you deal with passwords? Download KeePass. […] Suppose you run Quicken. You enter your checkbook balance, and some checks that haven’t cleared the bank. Then, you enter the password for your online account at the bank, and download your checking account history and/or your credit card history. Now that you have synchronized your computer with your bank, Intuit (the makers of Quicken) […] First of all, you DID turn on encryption for your wireless network, didn’t you? If you wireless network is unencrypted, then anyone driving by can connect to your network, and try to steal information from your computers. (This is called wardriving. And, there is a newer version where the bad guys can do the same […] 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 […] |
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