Even better. They can reformat the disk. That's put a dent in up time statistics. -------------------------------------------------------- This transmission may contain confidential, proprietary, or privileged information which is intended solely for use by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, copying or distribution of this transmission or its attachments is strictly prohibited. In addition, unauthorized access to this transmission may violate federal or State law, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1985. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the transmission and its attachments. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mario Broodbakker Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 8:44 PM To: EPanosian@xxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle 9i on Windows 2003 -- Vulnerability Question A user with admin rights can give him/herself dba priviliges. And so connect as sysdba, and do anything he/she likes, whatever a sysdba can do. Mario ----- Original Message ---- From: "Panosian, Estifan" <EPanosian@xxxxxx> To: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:20:14 PM Subject: Oracle 9i on Windows 2003 -- Vulnerability Question Hello, I am trying to make our database more secure, one of the scenarios we came up is: 'what if an internal hacker (somehow) gets to our database server?' 1) what kind of damages he/she could cause, and 2) what we need to do to protect our databases? 3) Could hacker be able to browse data? Any article in this regard? OS is Windows 2003, Oracle is 9.2.0.7. The hacker has admin rights on the server. Regards, Estifan Panosian -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l