Hacking Oracle's database will soon get easier - washingtonpost.com

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers will soon gain a powerful new tool for breaking into Oracle Corp 's database, the top-selling business software used by companies to store electronic information.

Security experts have developed an easy-to-use, automated software tool that can remotely break into Oracle databases over the Internet to simulate attacks on computer systems, but cybercrooks can use it for hacking.

The tool's authors created it through a controversial open-source software project known as Metasploit, which releases its free software over the Web.

Chris Gates, a security tester who co-developed the Metasploit tool, will unveil it next week at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, where thousands of security experts and hackers will gather to exchange trade secrets.

"Anyone with no skill and knowledge can download and run it," said ...

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