Hacker News with Generative AI: Oracle

Oracle hopes talk of cloud data theft dies off. CISA just resurrected it (theregister.com)
CISA – the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – has issued an alert for those who missed Oracle grudgingly admitting some customer data was stolen from the database giant's public cloud infrastructure.

Cybersecurity, Data Security, Oracle, Cloud Computing, Government

8 points by LinuxBender 4 days ago | 0 comments

GraalVM 24.0.1 (graalvm.org)
This is the April 2025 Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) for GraalVM Community Edition for JDK 24.

New Releases, Java, Oracle, Software

4 points by sgammon 11 days ago | 0 comments

Letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned (theregister.com)
Oracle's letter to customers about an intrusion into part of its public cloud empire - while insisting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was untouched - has sparked a mix of ridicule and outrage in the infosec community.

Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Oracle

4 points by belter 12 days ago | 0 comments

Oracle privately confirms Cloud breach to customers (bleepingcomputer.com)
Oracle has finally acknowledged to some customers that attackers have stolen old client credentials after breaching a "legacy environment" last used in 2017, Bloomberg reported.

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Oracle, Cloud Computing

6 points by frenchtoast8 22 days ago | 1 comments

Oracle's masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeat (theregister.com)
Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance to publicly acknowledge all of the events as well as allegedly deleting evidence from the web.

Cybersecurity, Public Relations, Oracle

5 points by rntn 24 days ago | 0 comments

Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant's pedantry as evidence vanishes (theregister.com)
Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly – it may be scrubbing the web of evidence, too.

Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Oracle, Data Breaches

7 points by rntn 25 days ago | 0 comments

Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers? (doublepulsar.com)
Being a provider of cloud SaaS (Software-as-a-service) solutions requires certain cybersecurity responsibilities — including being transparent and open. The moment where this is tested at Oracle has arrived, as they have a serious cybersecurity incident playing out in a service they manage for customers.

Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Oracle, SaaS

638 points by 2bluesc 26 days ago | 127 comments

Oracle Health (formerly Cerner) breach compromises patient data at US hospitals (bleepingcomputer.com)
A breach at Oracle Health impacts multiple US healthcare organizations and hospitals after a threat actor stole patient data from legacy servers.

Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Data Breaches, Oracle, Cerner

23 points by dinosor 28 days ago | 0 comments

Oracle customers confirm data stolen in alleged cloud breach is valid (bleepingcomputer.com)
Despite Oracle denying a breach of its Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers and the theft of account data for 6 million people, BleepingComputer has confirmed with multiple companies that associated data samples shared by the threat actor are valid.

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Oracle, Cloud Computing

347 points by el_duderino 31 days ago | 82 comments

There are perhaps 10k reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial (theregister.com)
Oracle Cloud's denial of a digital break-in is now in clear dispute.

Cloud Security, Oracle, Cybersecurity

46 points by rntn 32 days ago | 0 comments

Despite evidence, Oracle Cloud denies break-in as pilfered info goes on sale (theregister.com)
Oracle has straight up denied claims by a miscreant that its public cloud offering has been compromised and information stolen.

Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Oracle, Data Breaches

17 points by rntn 33 days ago | 0 comments

Someone is claiming to have stolen JKS, SSO, and JPS keys from Oracle Cloud (cyberplace.social)

Cybersecurity, Oracle, Cloud Security

6 points by speckx 36 days ago | 0 comments

Learn.java: New Oracle platform to learn Java (learn.java)
Let's learn Java...

Java, Programming, Education, Oracle

11 points by hei-lima 38 days ago | 0 comments

Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco (theregister.com)
Birmingham City Council did not tell its official auditors about the disastrous Oracle implementation for ten months after the suite of applications went live, and appeared to obstruct access to the new system needed to complete their work.

Software, Government, Auditing, Oracle

14 points by aquir 45 days ago | 1 comments

Oracle misses on earnings and issues weak revenue guidance (cnbc.com)

Oracle, Earnings Reports, Financial News, Revenue Guidance

4 points by belter 46 days ago | 0 comments

Oracle's Federal Electronic Health Record experienced a nation-wide outage (cnbc.com)

Oracle, Healthcare, Technology, Government, Outage

4 points by mfiguiere 50 days ago | 0 comments

Oracle starts laying mines in JavaScript trademark battle (theregister.com)
Oracle this week asked the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to partially dismiss a challenge to its JavaScript trademark.

Lawsuits, Trademarks, Oracle, JavaScript

12 points by Alupis 79 days ago | 0 comments

Veterans Affairs reboots Oracle health records project for $330M (theregister.com)
The US Department of Veterans Affairs has restarted a project to implement Oracle electronic health records in its hospitals after the project was suspended in 2023.

Government, Healthcare, Technology, Oracle

4 points by rntn 79 days ago | 0 comments

Oracle Cloud deleting active user accounts without possibility for data recovery (mastodon.de)

Cloud Computing, Oracle, Data Loss, Privacy

240 points by jeroenhd 84 days ago | 110 comments

Oracle has until Monday to respond to the JavaScript trademark dispute (twitter.com)

Oracle, JavaScript, Trademark Disputes, Legal

9 points by cfnewsperson1 84 days ago | 4 comments

Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red (theregister.com)
Only around one in ten Oracle Java customers are likely to stick around following costly licensing changes Big Red made to its development and runtime environments in January 2023, according to research.

Oracle, Java, Licensing, Software, Business

76 points by rntn 87 days ago | 62 comments

Larry Ellison on AI Surveillance (Xcancel) (xcancel.com)
Oracle's Larry Ellison says “citizens will be on their best behavior” with an AI surveillance system

Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, Privacy, Technology, Oracle

19 points by FollowingTheDao 93 days ago | 4 comments

Oracle Will Not Voluntarily Withdraw JavaScript Trademark (twitter.com)

Oracle, Trademarks, Lawsuits, JavaScript

154 points by cfnewsperson1 108 days ago | 87 comments

Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, keep everyone in line (theregister.com)
AI is on the verge of ushering in a new era of mass surveillance, says Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, adding that his juggernaut is ready to serve as the technological backbone for such applications.

Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, Oracle, Technology, Business

27 points by FrustratedMonky 112 days ago | 17 comments

Oracle files notice of appearance for JavaScript trademark [pdf] (deno.com)

Legal, Trademarks, JavaScript, Oracle

107 points by cfnewsperson1 142 days ago | 84 comments

USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark (infoworld.com)
Deno Land, maker of the Deno runtime for JavaScript, has petitioned the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel Oracle’s ownership of the JavaScript trademark.

Trademarks, JavaScript, Legal, Deno, Oracle

86 points by oldnetguy 151 days ago | 25 comments

Deno is filing a USPTO petition to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark (bsky.app)

Legal, Trademark, JavaScript, Deno, Oracle

9 points by sangeeth96 155 days ago | 0 comments

Oracle Cloud Free Tier (oracle.com)
Build, test, and deploy applications on Oracle Cloud—for free.

Cloud Computing, Oracle, Free Trials

6 points by thunderbong 181 days ago | 2 comments

200GB Free Cloud for Your Files (tomaszdunia.pl)
My post about the free VPS server from Oracle is a true hit on this blog. Looking at the stats, it has more views than all other posts combined. It’s no wonder, because I think everyone likes to save a little and get something cool for free.

Cloud Storage, Free Services, Oracle

31 points by to3k 202 days ago | 64 comments

Oracle owns nearly a third of Arm chip house Ampere, could take control in 2027 (theregister.com)
Oracle could choose to take control of Ampere Computing, the Arm processor designer it has backed and uses in its cloud.

Oracle, Arm, Chip Manufacturing, Cloud Computing, Acquisitions

24 points by pjmlp 211 days ago | 0 comments