Updated: Oracle's tough new stance on end users and consultants who run security checks on its code has been questioned by one analyst A clampdown by Oracle on customers and consultants who "reverse ...

Oracle to 'sinner' customers: Reverse engineering is a sin and we know best Opinion: Stop sending vulnerability reports already.

Oracle CSO Mary Ann Davidson wrote a rambling post excoriating customers for reverse engineering their code.

Oracle's CSO lit a fire by ranting about the practice of reverse engineering code in order to find bugs. That did not go down well with security watchers. I see it as a missed opportunity. But you ...

Oracle's chief information security officer Mary Ann Davidson ruffled a few feathers on Tuesday in a 3000-word rant detailing how it scolds customers who reverse-engineer its products to find bugs ...

Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson on Monday penned an exhaustive rant—complete with a Q&A section—about customers reverse engineering software code to find vulnerabilities.

Mary Ann Davidson's exhaustive rant about customers reverse-engineering software code was quickly deleted by Oracle.

Davidson said Oracle has seen a large uptick in customers and consultants actively reverse engineering Oracle software to search for security vulnerabilities. While this is understandable given ...

The post set off an immediate firestorm in the security industry, which—aside from Oracle—has increasingly adopted a friendly attitude toward reverse engineers and benign hackers.

Reverse-engineering is the process of taking a piece of software or hardware, analyzing its functions and information flow and then translating those processes into a human-readable format. The ...