Oracle sues rival for hacking, data theft

Oracle sues rival for hacking, data theft
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-03-22

Database and enterprise software firm Oracle filed a lawsuit on Thursday against German application maker SAP claiming that the European firm pilfered an enormous number of documents and software from Oracle's customer-only support systems.

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Oracle sues rival for hacking, data theft 2007-03-23
Arko Dhar

"In late 2006, Oracle noticed "huge, unexplained spikes" in the number of its customers that had kept searching for more information after receiving the initial results of a search. Moreover, the renewed search attempts occurred within seconds of each other, suggesting that the actions had been automated, not performed by a human."

Either Oracle is extremely intelligent or SAP hackers are really fool . what kind of hackers do a automated attacks on a company like Oracle.

When we consider the fact that there is a compromise of data at such a high level I dont think SAP hackers are stupid enough to do a script kiddie activity. Bottomline is it doesnt smells good , though corporate rivarly shows its heights ..the overall story doesnt seem what it looks like. There is a far more complex scenario behind the scene.

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