When I first read an online rant by Oracle chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson, I pinged the software provider's PR, asking if the blog post was legitimate. While I'm yet to receive a response, ...

Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson, in a blog post published Monday, which has been removed, railed against customers and consultants for scanning the company's software for security bugs ...

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.