Soldier of Fortran site had links to all this. I don't think any of the information is new.
Rob Schramm On Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 7:15 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Really. In 2012 Logica, a mainframe service bureau in Sweden, suffered a > disastrous hack that involved government agency files, credit cards, and > social security numbers. The entry was via an online legal database that > was accessible via browser from the Internet, and which turned out to be > vulnerable to the CGI remote command execution vulnerability. The hack was > a crisis for Logica that ultimately required international diplomacy to > stop as the hacker had so many privileged RACF userids that if they revoked > one, he simply used another and created ten more. Per Gottfrid Svartholm > Warg, alias anakata, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, a media sharing site, > was convicted of the breach, and also of breaching a CSC mainframe in > Denmark, in which EU international police records among others were > exfiltrated. (Referenced in the article you cite.) > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Robert Harrison > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:27 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Mainframes open to internet attacks? > > From technologyreview.com: > > > http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540011/mainframe-computers-that-handle-our-most-sensitive-data-are-open-to-internet-attacks/ > > Really? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
