OTN ACE Director APAC Tour in Sydney Sessions

Thank you all for coming to my sessions at the Sydney conference of Oracle Technology Network +Oracle Community Network ACE Directors Tour in APAC. Please feel free to download the materials presented.




1. Secure your database in 1 day Presentation and Scripts
2. Prevent Bad SQLs in the Cloud Presentation
3. Becoming a Multitenant DBA Presentation




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What to Learn from LinkedIn Password Hack as an Oracle DBA

One of the major news today was the hacking and resultant publishing of passwords in LinkedIn. Didn't hear about it? Well, read it here. In summary, someone smart but with head screwed a little askew decided to pull passwords from LinkedIn account using a little known flaw in the LinkedIn iOS app. LinkedIn later confirmed that leak and asked users to change the password. This created a major ripple effect all over the world. The news competed for attention with others such as Spain's economic reforms; but in the end it managed to rise to the top since many professionals and executives are members of the LinkedIn site and were affected.

Well, what is that to do with being an Oracle DBA - you may ask. Fair question. You see, there is a very important lesson to be learned here from this incident - a lesson commonly ignored by many DBAs, developers, architects and pretty much all users of an Oracle database. Let's see what that is.