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Month: December 2010

Web Application Vulnerabilities – way too common!
Sam AlapatiCenter of Internet Security (CIS), Database security, DSS (Data Security Standard), IT Security, Security RiskLeave a Comment on Web Application Vulnerabilities – way too common!

Web applications are common to practically every company that uses the internet. Even if a company uses the well-known Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and utilizes sophisticated firewall protection, the very fact that it can’t control what users can input into their web forms, introduces several avenues that a malicious person can use to attack the company’s data. Top web application researcher and practitioner Dafydd Studdard and his colleagues have tested thousands of web applications for security assessments over the years. […]

The Recent attacks on PayPal, Visa and MasterCard
Sam AlapatiCenter of Internet Security (CIS), Database security, DSS (Data Security Standard), IT Security, PCI (Payment Card Industry), Security RiskLeave a Comment on The Recent attacks on PayPal, Visa and MasterCard

One of the interesting fallouts from the Wikileaks revelations about U.S. and international diplomatic cables that revealed the inner machinations of foreign policy operatives, secrets is the attacks by Wikileaks supporters on various financial institutions that shut off the processing of monetary contributions to the Wikileaks organization. Of the three major financial giants impacted by the mass internet attacks, PayPal, Visa and MasterCard were the most affected entities. PayPal seems to have weathered the storm pretty well, but Visa and […]

The Salesforce Challenge: Oracle Are You Ready?
Scott D. RosenbergOracle database, Oracle: News You Can UseLeave a Comment on The Salesforce Challenge: Oracle Are You Ready?

Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff has just issued a challenge in the way of Database.com, an open source “in the cloud” database system. It’s supposed to be totally open, scalable and work beautifully with Salesforce.com. The skinny, it’s supposed to be a developer’s dream – open to any and all platforms from cloud to server; any language and any device. So, is Oracle ready? Yes. Larry Ellison has it right. Cloud computing is not something you dive into by moving your sensitive […]

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