Hacker News with Generative AI: Oracle

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 10 hours 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

6 points by rntn 2 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

629 points by 2bluesc 2 days ago | 126 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 5 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 7 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 8 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 10 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 12 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 15 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 22 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 23 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 27 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 55 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 55 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 60 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 61 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 63 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 70 days ago | 4 comments

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

Oracle, Trademarks, Lawsuits, JavaScript

154 points by cfnewsperson1 85 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 88 days ago | 17 comments

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

Legal, Trademarks, JavaScript, Oracle

107 points by cfnewsperson1 119 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 128 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 132 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 158 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 179 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 187 days ago | 0 comments

Oracle Cloud AI will enable mass surveillance, says Ellison (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, Cloud Computing

3 points by isaacfrond 197 days ago | 0 comments

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

Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, Oracle, Technology

9 points by jjgreen 198 days ago | 0 comments

Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript (javascript.tm)
Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript.

JavaScript, Oracle, Open Source, Software Development

277 points by jeremiahlee 198 days ago | 125 comments

Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison (arstechnica.com)
On Thursday, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison shared his vision for an AI-powered surveillance future during a company financial meeting, reports Business Insider.

AI, Surveillance, Oracle, Technology, Larry Ellison

22 points by LorenDB 198 days ago | 5 comments