This year’s Oracle tally is actually down from Litchfield’s 2005 estimate, which counted 140,000 Oracle systems. That same study placed the SQL server total at 210,000.

Litchfield (right), co-founder of Next Generation Security Software, ran port scans against 1,160,000 random IP addresses -- TCP port 1433 (SQL Server) and 1521 (Oracle) -- and found about 368,000 ...

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Litchfield pinged over 1 million randomly generated IP addresses, checking see if he could access them on the IP ports reserved for Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle's database, according to the report.

Using a sample group of 157 SQL servers and 53 Oracle Database servers, Litchfield based his conclusions on the Ant Census from the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute.

Database fixes for all Oracle closed security holes in Oracle Database Server versions 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.1, and 12.1.0.2. None of the vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely without ...

Litchfield took a look at more than 1 million randomly generated IP addresses, checking them to see if he could access them on the IP ports reserved for Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle's database.

Instructions on how to exploit an unpatched Oracle Database Server vulnerability in order to intercept the information exchanged between clients and databases were published by a security ...