Hi R'Shmuel; AMV"SH, "... What about the Christmas Card Worm? ..."
That was AFAIK on a VM system, not, an MVS system. Regards, David On 2021-10-08 10:35, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Historically, there have been many poorly run shops. Prior to MVS, older systems were wide open and even systems with storage protection were swiss cheeses. 07F0 0A0C Didn't somebody delete an unsecured system data set during IBM's MVS demonstration at SHARE? What about the Christmas Card Worm? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmason.gmu.edu%2F~smetz3&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cb18204aadece408d669708d98a68dbc6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637693005274413450%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Uk8NcyJRnMxMoFv7faM3sA3HSM1HafQ6QJvHBBzpUiA%3D&reserved=0 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bill Johnson [00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 7, 2021 6:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe ransomware solution You’d have to be a poorly run shop to permit any of those to occur. Maybe that’s why mainframe hacks have actually never happened.....Biden successfully extracted 124,000 from Afghanistan in a few weeks. Amazing. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, October 7, 2021, 2:12 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: And assuming you never make a mistake. Never leave an APF data set unprotected. Never give the wrong person console authority. Fully understand APF on UNIX. Never have a Rexx PDS used by privileged users that is modifiable by others. Have no magic SVCs. Have no flawed APF code, no APF "tools" available inappropriately. Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN .
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