Hacker News with Generative AI: Oracle

Oracle Database TNS vulnerability could leak data to further attacks (scworld.com)
A vulnerability in Oracle database communications could potentially allow an unauthenticated user to access system memory contents that may include sensitive information that could be used for further attacks.

Security, Oracle, Databases, Vulnerabilities

4 points by Bender 2 days ago | 0 comments

Oracle VM VirtualBox – VM Escape via VGA Device (github.com/google)
An integer overflow vulnerability exists within the VirtualBox vmsvga3dSurfaceMipBufferSize [source] function. This vulnerability allows an attacker to manipulate a malloc call such that 0 bytes are allocated while VirtualBox tracks the size of the buffer as a value greater than 0.

Security, Virtualization, Vulnerability, Oracle, VirtualBox

93 points by serhack_ 8 days ago | 47 comments

Users advised to review Oracle Java use as Big Red's year end approaches (theregister.com)
Experts are warning of an increase in Oracle Java audits - as the tech giant nears its year end - following a switch to a per-employee license model that could see costs grow by up to five times.

Oracle, Java, Licensing, Technology, Finance

8 points by rntn 14 days ago | 7 comments

Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S. hospitals (cnbc.com)

Oracle, Software, Healthcare, Cybersecurity, Business

174 points by jnord 25 days ago | 106 comments

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 32 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 38 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 39 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 50 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 51 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 53 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 53 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 56 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 58 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 59 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 61 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 63 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 66 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 72 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 73 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 78 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 106 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 106 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 111 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 112 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 114 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 120 days ago | 4 comments

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

Oracle, Trademarks, Lawsuits, JavaScript

154 points by cfnewsperson1 136 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 139 days ago | 17 comments

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

Legal, Trademarks, JavaScript, Oracle

107 points by cfnewsperson1 170 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 178 days ago | 25 comments