Oracle

Oracle fixes Solaris 10 flaw targeted by leaked NSA exploit

April 19, 2017

Oracle has pushed out a record-breaking 299 fixes for vulnerabilities in its many, many products, and among them is a Solaris 10 bug whose existence has been revealed through …

Massive Oracle Critical Patch Update fixes 270 vulnerabilities

January 19, 2017

Oracle has released the first Critical Patch Update scheduled for 2017, and it’s massive. It fixes 270 vulnerabilities across multiple products, and over 100 of them are …

Oracle buys Dyn

November 21, 2016

Oracle today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Dyn, a cloud-based Internet Performance and DNS provider that monitors, controls, and optimizes Internet …

Post-pumpkin Patch Tuesday: What’s in store for November

November 3, 2016

There has been a lot of activity since October’s Patch Tuesday. During that short period of time, Oracle released its quarterly CPU, including an update for Java JRE; Adobe …

Oracle-owned MICROS PoS systems vendor breached

August 9, 2016

MICROS, the point-of-sale payment systems vendor owned by Oracle, has suffered a data breach, and there are indicators that point to the infamous Carbanak (aka Anunak) …

Oracle splats 276 bugs with mammoth Critical Patch Update

July 20, 2016

In case you missed it, Oracle’s July 2016 Critical Patch Update is out, and it’s bigger than ever before. It plugs 276 security issues across hundreds of Oracle …

Oracle patches 136 flaws in 49 products

April 20, 2016

Oracle released the April 2016 Critical Patch Update, which provides fixes for 136 vulnerabilities in 49 products, including Java SE and MySQL, the company’s Database …

Emergency Java update plugs system compromise hole

March 24, 2016

Oracle has issued an emergency security update for Java to plug a critical flaw (CVE-2016-0636) that could be exploited by luring users to visit a web page hosting the …

Oracle pushes out emergency fix for Java SE

February 9, 2016

Oracle has patched a vulnerability (CVE-2016-0603) in Java SE (Standard Edition) 6, 7 or 8 on the Windows platform, which could be exploited by attackers looking for ways to …

Oracle announces Java plugin deprecation, death

January 28, 2016

With a short post by a member of the Java strategy team, Oracle has announced the approaching death of the hated Java plugin. “Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser …

Oracle fixes 248 vulnerabilities in January patch update

January 21, 2016

Oracle has published their Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2016. The Oracle CPU is quarterly and addresses the flaws in large Oracle’s product line, including their …

Oracle agrees to settle FTC charges it deceived consumers about Java updates

December 22, 2015

Oracle has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers about the security provided by updates to its Java Platform, Standard Edition software …