How to Protect your Oracle Database from Hackers

I was attending the NorthWest Oracle Users Group meeting on Monday. At the beginning of the conference, there was the usual conference business and announcements. The speaker announced that the 1:00 PM technical talk was cancelled due to illness. I looked at the schedule, and thought: Dang. There is nothing else that I want to […]

Windows domain accounts — insecure by default?

Today, I was working on an issue at a client site. I was given a Windows domain account and a personal certificate to login to their VPN. I don’t know how the Windows domain account was created, but I’m assuming that it was nothing special.

Once I connected to VPN, I Remote Desktop’ed into the […]

How To Protect Your Wireless Network

First of all, you DID turn on encryption for your wireless network, didn’t you? If you wireless network is unencrypted, then anyone driving by can connect to your network, and try to steal information from your computers. (This is called wardriving. And, there is a newer version where the bad guys can do the same […]

How to Keep Top-Secret Documents Off the Internet

I don’t know about you, but I don’t have any top-secret documents. But, suppose you use Quicken. Suppose you have a secret plan to become the world’s next billionaire. Suppose you don’t want the NSA prying into the photo collection of your, um, kids. Well, don’t connect your computer to the Internet.

Some people may […]