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[Insight] Hackers Did Not Target the Banks’ Vaults — The Path of Attack Has Changed

On October 3, financial authorities in Seoul stepped up their response to a series of cyber intrusions and personal data leaks that have spread from South Korea’s major banks to savings banks and…

  • Hackers shifted focus from core transaction systems to peripheral internet-connected systems
  • Financial Services Commission convened emergency meeting on October 4
  • Investigators scrutinizing spread of attacks and vulnerabilities in peripheral systems

ORA-00257: The Database Stopped Accepting Writes. The Archiver Is Stuck.

The pager goes off at 3 a.m.: the application is frozen. Every screen that tries to save hangs, and the ones that time out come back with ORA-00257: archiver error. Connect internal only, until freed.

  • Database stopped accepting writes due to ORA-00257 archiver error
  • Archiver process stuck because archived logs not being removed
  • Issue resolved by freeing up space in Fast Recovery Area (FRA)

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