Researchers: Oracle Database Passwords Can Be Cracked

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Researchers: Oracle Database Passwords Can Be Cracked

10-29-2005, 04:07 PM,

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Researchers: Oracle Database Passwords Can Be Cracked

Quote:Passwords that limit access to Oracle databases can be cracked with off-the-shelf hardware, a pair of security researchers claimed in a recently published paper.

...the password algorithm Oracle uses is weak -- Oracle doesn't preserve the case of the password, for example -- and provides attackers several ways to break into databases.

full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20051029/tc_cmp/172901453

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