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Vulnerabilities in the lastest version of Oracle’s database leave the system vulnerable to attacks from hackers. That according to security expert Alexander Kornbrust, who has warned that Oracle’s 11g release – while more secure than its predecessors – does offer enough flaws for attackers to steal data. “Oracle made big progress with 11g, but some of the vulnerabilities I’ve found so far in 11g are stupid programming errors,” said Kornbrust, managing director of Red Database Security, during an interview at the Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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The Web site of the Bank of India has been hacked and is now an unwitting dispenser of an enormous amount of malware code to visitors, including rootkits and trojans, according to Sunbelt Software, which advises not currently visiting the Bankofindia.com site. “It’s very pernicious stuff,” says Alex Eckelberry, president of security firm Sunbelt Software.

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George Hotz, the teenager who unlocked Apple’s iPhone from AT&T’s network, will receive a new sports car after signing a deal with a US “aftermarket” mobile phone company. Hotz will drive away in his Nissan 350Z later today after a presentation at CertiCell’s headquarters in Kentucky. Hotz revealed last week that he had developed a process for untethering the iPhone from the AT&T network, allowing the device to work on other GSM compatible networks.

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