Oracle

Extra, extra, read all about it: Washington Post clobbered in Clop caper

Nearly 10,000 staff and contractors warned after attackers raided newspaper's Oracle EBS setup

Cyber-crime13 Nov 2025 | 3

Hitachi-owned GlobalLogic admits data stolen on 10k current and former staff

Clop's Oracle EBS exploit spree shows no sign of slowing, claims nearly 30 more casualties in media, finance, and tech.

Cyber-crime11 Nov 2025 | 1

Allianz UK joins growing list of Clop’s Oracle E-Business Suite victims

Insurance giant’s UK arm says cybercriminals misattributed the real victim

Cyber-crime10 Nov 2025 | 9

Meta to sell $30B in bonds to build AI datacenters

Zuckcorp will gladly pay you in 2065 for the eyewatering sums it is borrowing today

On-Prem31 Oct 2025 | 19

The clock's ticking for MySQL 8.0 as end of life looms

Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026

Databases31 Oct 2025 | 11

Google parent company spending like a drunken sailor as capex triples over 2 years

Microsoft also ramping up spending, but investors concerned about overshooting demand

AI + ML30 Oct 2025 | 14

American Airlines subsidiary Envoy caught in Clop's Oracle EBS raid

Not a good week for Big Red

Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2025 | 3

Oracle goes all-in on AI, customers still figuring out how they'll use it

It's all agents and LLMs in Vegas, and even legacy users can partake

AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 5

Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers

Comment Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet

AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 36

18 zettaFLOPS of new AI compute coming online from Oracle late next year

New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs

Systems14 Oct 2025 | 7

Oracle rushes out another emergency E-Business Suite patch as Clop fallout widens

Latest in a long line of EBS flaws leta miscreants remotely compromise enterprise systems to pinch sensitive data

Patches14 Oct 2025 | 1

Crims had 3-month head start on defenders in Oracle EBS invasion

The miscreants started their attack all the way back on July 10

Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2025 | 2

Bank of England smells hint of dotcom bubble 2.0 in AI froth

UK central bank warns of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks

AI + ML08 Oct 2025 | 55

UK Home Office doubles down on Oracle with £54M cloud contract

Department also wedded to Big Red in shared service applications

Public Sector08 Oct 2025 | 7

Clop raid on Oracle E-Business Suite started months ago, researchers warn

Strap in, admins. Exploits began in August and now the code is out there

Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2025 | 2

Red Hat breach escalates as criminals collaborate on 'multi-terabyte' extortion plot

Bad guys promise not to attack customers if they get paid

Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2025 | 6

Clop crew hits Oracle E-Business Suite users with fresh zero-day

Big Red rushes out patch for 9.8-rated flaw after crooks exploit it for data theft and extortion

Cybersecurity Month06 Oct 2025 |

Oracle tells Clop-targeted EBS users to apply July patch, problem solved

Researchers suggest internet-facing portals are exposing 'thousands' of orgs

Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2025 |

Clop-linked crims shake down Oracle execs with data theft claims

Extortion emails name-drop Big Red's E-Business Suite, though Google and Mandiant yet to find proof of any breach

Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2025 |

Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst

Bubble, you say? OpenAI will borrow billions to pay Big Red, who will borrow billions on the hope OpenAI pays it

AI + ML29 Sep 2025 | 32

Oracle saddles up with $18B debt amid AI infrastructure gamble

Ballooning leverage and shaky customer funding could strain Big Red's balance sheet

PaaS + IaaS25 Sep 2025 | 17

Europe's largest city council delays fix to disastrous Oracle system once more

System meant to go live in 2021 costing £20M awaits reimplementation with new £170M price tag

Databases24 Sep 2025 | 80

OpenAI's Stargate project to pave the world with AI datacenters announces five new US locations

In Texas, New Mexico, and the Midwest

Off-Prem24 Sep 2025 | 7

Oracle gets to store US users' TikTok data, says Trump

President to announce details on Big Red’s storage and security deal for Chinese social media phenomenon later this week

PaaS + IaaS23 Sep 2025 | 19

Two heads better than one? Oracle gives the co-CEO model another shot

Cloud and apps chiefs step up as Safra Catz moves upstairs. Larry remains Larry

CxO22 Sep 2025 | 7

Moody's raises Big Red flag over Oracle's AI datacenter buildout blueprint

Ratings agency points out there's a risk of relying on a small number of buyers

AI + ML22 Sep 2025 | 6

'Technical debt' in police database built to respond to child murders causing a 'failing service'

Project rated at 'Red' risk as it struggles to move off obsolete Oracle tech and cloud transition stalls

Databases22 Sep 2025 | 8

Monty Widenius 'heartbroken' at the extent of Oracle's MySQL job cuts

Original author of open source database 'not surprised' but 'saddened' as critics slam vendor's layoffs

Databases11 Sep 2025 | 4

OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill

Tick tock Sam, just fifteen months before your first bill is due

Off-Prem11 Sep 2025 | 33

Oracle boasts $455B backlog from AI boom, but not all its new friends will live to pay up

Comment With extinction event predicted, Big Red's four-year forecasts will have to meet reality

AI + ML10 Sep 2025 | 10

Mega-and-MAGA deals position Oracle's Larry Ellison to overtake Elon

Big Red's profits are flat, but its order book is phat

Databases10 Sep 2025 | 22

Oracle’s layoff train rolls on: 101 in WA, 250+ in CA - with more cuts looming

Big Red bloodbath not yet acknowledged by the company

PaaS + IaaS03 Sep 2025 | 19

Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University

Oracle billionaire funds project to predict immunity and develop treatments for hard-to-prevent diseases

Science01 Sep 2025 | 28

Oracle cuts cloud jobs with Seattle hit hard as AI spending soars

AI will take your salary in capex before it can take your job

PaaS + IaaS15 Aug 2025 | 11

Birmingham City Council's £131M Oracle rebuild in danger as go-live nears

Finance and HR system overhaul still faces major risks with just months to go before second launch

Databases06 Aug 2025 | 49

Oracle offers workaround to Windows boot issue in the cloud instead of fix

Kludge causing production outages

Cloud Infrastructure Month01 Aug 2025 | 6

Enterprise software giants weaponize AI to kill discounts and deepen lock-in

Oracle, SAP, Salesforce et al are tightening the screws, Forrester warns

AI + ML01 Aug 2025 | 11

Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary

Java-like move could land those expecting free trial with a new bill

Virtualization30 Jul 2025 | 118

Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live

Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters

Cloud Infrastructure Month18 Jul 2025 | 2

Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open source

Devops15 Jul 2025 | 45

Rimini Street, Oracle edge toward truce after years of legal warfare

Hush-hush settlement follows decision to wind down PeopleSoft support

Databases11 Jul 2025 | 1

Feds brag about hefty Oracle discount – licensing experts smell a lock-in

If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is

Cloud Infrastructure Month08 Jul 2025 | 12

Oracle just signed one mystery customer that will double its cloud revenue in 2028

Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migration

Databases01 Jul 2025 | 5

Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7 million after revising data strategy

Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy

Public Sector25 Jun 2025 | 4

Deal to 'save' UK colleges £45M in Oracle Java licensing fees followed audit requests

Exclusive Framework agreement may rescue some unis from 'financial abyss' after Oracle per-employee Java license, says insider

Software20 Jun 2025 | 48

UK MoD pauses £92M Oracle Fusion contract amid project governance review

Last of Whitehall-wide ERP overhaul will not kick off until next year

Databases17 Jun 2025 | 5

Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person

Oracle’s 80-year-old co-founder pulls off a $25 billion cloud day to leapfrog Zuck and Bezos into the No. 2 spot

Databases13 Jun 2025 | 42

UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs

Deal includes 'waiver of historic fees'

Software13 Jun 2025 | 66

Oracle scores cloud customer – maybe China's TEMU – that wants any available server, anytime, anywhere

Big Red hails growth from 'astronomical' and 'insatiable' demand for cloud and huge IaaS growth

PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2025 | 3

Oracle's $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI's Abilene, Texas DC to handle

400,000 GB200s could be more than a 1.2GW datacenter can chew

Systems27 May 2025 | 21

European customers report Oracle Cloud identity outage, Big Red is silent

DownDetector reported problems for about 6 hours

PaaS + IaaS19 May 2025 | 17

Users advised to review Oracle Java use as Big Red's year end approaches

International Java sales operation and the prospects of audits per-employee license model make the move to open source irresistible

Software09 May 2025 | 28

Oracle hopes talk of cloud data theft dies off. CISA just resurrected it for Easter

Some in the infosec world definitely want to see Big Red crucified

CSO18 Apr 2025 | 6

The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned

TL;DR: Move along, still nothing to see here - an idea that leaves infosec pros aghast

Cyber-crime10 Apr 2025 | 28

Oracle says its cloud was in fact compromised

Reliability, honesty, accuracy. And then there's this lot

PaaS + IaaS08 Apr 2025 | 37

Oracle's masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeat

Opinion Fallout shows how what you say must be central to disaster planning

Disaster Recovery Week02 Apr 2025 | 12