R12.1: Enabling TLS in Oracle EBS

Read up on MOS article 376700.1 to learn how to start working on "Enabling TLS in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1" for your environment today so you can get away from SSL as many third party vendors are going away from SSL due to all of the issues like POODLE.

Oracle Linux: Windows AD or LDAP server cannot authenticate due to TLS error

While the My Oracle Support article "OL 6 & 7 - Unable to Authenticate to Windows AD or LDAP Server "Could not start TLS encryption. unknown error"" from ID 2109478.1 may not be relevant if you are not changing your configuration, you may have to know this when you decide to do an upgrade so check this out!

11gR2: Connections fail with ORA-12560 while SSL_VERSION is set to TLS 1.1 or 1.2

If you are getting ready to upgrade to 11.2.0.4 or if you are on that database version and need to change TLS settings, you really need to read My Oracle Support document "11.2.0.4 Connections Fail With ORA-12560 When Using TLS 1.1 or 1.2 (By Setting SSL_VERSION In Sqlnet.ora)" as a bundle patch needs to be applied to get the connections working!

Oracle Linux: Can openssl work with TLS 1.2 on OS 5.x?

In relation to my articles on POODLE and Heartbleed attacks with vectors on ssl, the My Oracle Support note "Oracle Linux 5.x: openssl could not work with TLS v1.2" located by document ID 1986516.1 may be of interest to you if you are still trying to make sure your environments are clear of these issues!

JRE 1.8 upgrade activates TLS settings that knocks out Oracle Forms

I have talked about HeartBleed and POODLE vulnerabilities recently which both relate to SSL and TLS but tonight MOS document "Forms with SSL not Working After Upgrade to JRE 1.8 from 1.7" from note ID 1675195.1 combines them both with JRE updates and Oracle Forms!  Are you getting reading to update your version of the JRE soon?  Need to know more about JRE 1.7 and how it will be autoupdating to JRE 1.8?  Learn from Steven Chan's blog entry on the subject!