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Oracle Zero-Day Flaw Project Cancelled

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the patches-not-so-welcome dept.

Benny Folds writes "Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss has suddenly cancelled plans to release daily zero-day flaws in Oracle databases during the first week in December. Just days before the project was due to start, Cerrudo announced that 'due to many problems,' the WoODB (Week of Oracle Database Bugs) is being scrapped. He did not elaborate on the reasons for the cancellation."

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  1. Mission Accomplished by Salvance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sounds like he got what he wanted: publicity and a response from Oracle (hopefully with some better responsiveness to bugs on their part in the future). Why anger his clients if he has already received the desired response?

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  2. Larry Ellison by Cally · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...probably made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

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  3. So has he by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Interesting

    provided details of these supposed exploits to Oracle yet?

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  4. Re:With good reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Has to have been a joke. The first five digits -do- make 17, but then you have to skip a digit (a 1) and the next series will also make 21 (note that both 17 and 21 are palindromes in binary). After that, though, you have to do some hunting to find a series of digits that will make 39. I stopped looking at that point.

  5. Re:Two words.... by LurkerXXX · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yup. Most likely.

    It'd be a shame if he put his list of flaws in an Oracle Database running on the net... and someone hacked it and published them anonymously...

    It wouldn't be his fault at all, so he'd be immune from their lawsuits at that point, and still get them out there.

  6. I want to learn from the pros! by TheSpatulaOfLove · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am simply amazed by the Oracle sales force. These guys must tell an amazing story when they make the final presentation to big wigs, because they land multi-million dollar contracts and promise the world...always to fall very short of the intended outcome.


    Every single company I've worked for or interacted with that chose to go with Oracle has been driven into the ground during the roll-out and for months, sometime years after the fact with system failures. I've actually seen a few go completely out of business and many employees who were let go cite Oracle implementation as the beginning of the end.


    I've lovingly adopted a new name for Oracle. I call it "Fish-eye". It focuses on one thing and everything else is blurry - That one thing? Ruining successful companies.