Oracle

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2014
Critical vulnerabilities in Oracle servers in the wild

Researcher Dana Taylor is warning on the existence of two critical vulnerabilities in Oracle servers in the wild since a long time. Two serious vulnerabilities affect Oracle’s older database packages, allowing an attacker to remotely access a server bypassing authentication mechanism. Exploiting the flaws the attackers can browse the filesystem of the server accessing any files. […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2013
Zero-day vulnerability exploits, too precious commodities

NSS Labs issued the report titled “The Known Unknowns” to explain dynamics behind the market of zero-day exploits. Last week I discussed about the necessity to define a model for “cyber conflict” to qualify the principal issues related to the use of cyber tools and cyber weapons in an Information Warfare context, today I decided […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2013
New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities affect Java earlier versions

Java, Java and once again Java, the popular framework and its vulnerabilities are becoming a really nightmare for security experts, billion of users and their machines are exposed to a series of attacks that try to exploit flaws in the Oracle software. Security worldwide community attributes to the Java vulnerabilities the principal responsibilities for recent […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2013
New security problem for Oracle Java software

The year is start way for Oracle Java platform, a new Java 0-day vulnerability has been discovered and worldwide security community is very concerned on the potential effect of the bug. We have discovered how much dangerous could be the exploit of a zero-day vulnerability especially against institutional targets and governments (e.g. Elderwood project), state-sponsored hackers […]