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Log4J and Oracle Enterprise Manager

Log4j issues allow a remote client to execute code without authentication. Software vendors spent the last two months thinking of the impact and the mitigations. The bad: If you have Enterprise Manager, you have multiple web services, like em itself (https://oms.example.com:7799/em), the weblogic console (https://oms.example.com:7102/console), the agent (https://dbsrv01.example.com:3872/emd/main/) and others. This makes you an easy […]

TNS resolution with LDAP and SSL

Long time ago, ldapsearch without password and without ssl was the way to go. But clear-text authentication (so called simple-bind) is a security leak. More and more, directory server vendors and administrators are closing the default non-ssl port and enforce authentication. And if you use ldap for TNS naming, things will break. Back in 2003, […]