Category Archives: Database Stuff

If you’re like me, you frequently have many environments open at the same time in putty, sqlcl, sqldeveloper, or other tools. This happened quite a few years back, I was switching between my dev, test, and production environments, doing some … Continue reading →

March 21 – 22: I will be speaking at Utah Oracle Users Group Training Days (and getting some Spring Skiing in.) http://utoug.org/TrainingDays I will be speaking on Holistic Database Security and Secure Coding. My Holistic Database Security presentation has come … Continue reading →

It’s been a crazy year. In 2017 I’ve done talks in Paris France, Helsinki and Rovaniemi Finland, Sofia Bulgaria, Moscow Russia, Denver Colorado, Las Vegas Nevada, San Antonio Texas, Krakow Poland, Dushanbe Tajikistan, and Raleigh North Carolina. A few of … Continue reading →

99% of my presentations are technical, addressing our information security needs. Then every now and again, I get to do something fun. There was “Hacking The Human Brain” last June at BGOUG. My next trip in September is taking me … Continue reading →

This is going to be quick, I don’t get a lot of time to read new features documentation. I normally reserve that for once a month, print em’ out and read over a nice glass of Scotch. Hey it works … Continue reading →

As most of you know I live on the defense side of infosec. As attack vectors are exposed, I study them to learn how to design systems that can defend against them. There are some biggies, sql injection, cross site … Continue reading →

I will making my first trip to Krakow Poland and Dushanbe Tajikistan. This trip will cover over 24,000 miles in air travel and five different airlines. POUG High Five. The Polish Oracle Users Group will be having their annual tech … Continue reading →

Windows 10 has the capability to record everything you say, everything you type and everything you write. Okay, I have a fundamental problem with this. Microsoft implemented this feature in the Beta release of Windows 10 to help the product … Continue reading →

Quick Tip. My logon.sql file. I don’t want plscope_settings and plsql_warnings set when I’m in production; but if I’m in my test / dev / sandbox environments, then I do turn them on. This helps. Enjoy; this should be self … Continue reading →

I’ll get back to the GDPR series tomorrow. Can I get a show of hands, How many people do unit testing? I’ve been in a lot of shops where unit testing and code reviews have been passed up in the … Continue reading →

#GDPR is coming Security is a feature #2 Data Masking In the context of GDPR, data masking should be done so that the all the data attributes on a person should not be able to define that person. Most of … Continue reading →

Security is feature. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be looking how some of the issues on how GDPR will be impacting us as technical professionals. There are a lot of things that I find technically interesting in GDPR such … Continue reading →

So I get up this morning, check email and what is waiting for me. A phishing email. Okay lets do a little analysis to see how to detect this really quick. 1) My paypal account is not linked to this … Continue reading →