You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack
25-08-2026 18:09 via theregister.com

You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack

In late July, Oracle released a mammoth security patch dump with 1,449 patches, in a perhaps unprecedented bad day for database admins. None of them, it turns out, would have prevented the credential theft on an Oracle database server described by security platform Huntress. “Even if it had been fully patched, everything working, it still would have happened,” said Craig Savage, cybersecurity lead at Oracle third-party support vendor Spinnaker Support, referring to the attack. In Jul
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