Oracle Support portal: HTML 5 replaces Flash

Oracle Support is upgrading their web interface from Flash to HTML5. I’m happy. I no longer have to twiddle my thumbs waiting for Flash to load:




Secret question fail

My credit union switched to a new service provider for online banking and bill paying. The good news is that they’ve chosen a service provider that has a fairly modern looking interface, unlike the 1990s interface of their old provider. Among other things, they no longer use a captcha as a security factor and they now require “the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox […] SSL compliant with 128 bit encryption” instead of IE5 and Netscape 6.2. I keep thinking that old interface was screen scraping TN3270 session in the background. The new interface at least gives the appearance of having been written this century.

“We keep logs as far back, as long as we have had software to keep logs.”

If I’m reading this right, Symantec had a breech in 2006 but didn’t think that the breech was significant. After learning that older versions or their source code was stolen, they re-analyzed the 2006 event from 6 year old logs (!) and determined that the source was stolen during that incident.