Re: USS Features

2023-08-13 Thread Jon Perryman
> On Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 06:04:55 PM PDT, Grant Taylor wrote: > These statements cause me to pause.  They seem somewhat antithetical to > welcoming and encouraging people to use the mainframe / z/OS. > Why is it absurd to allow everyone to do a Proof Of Concept on z/OS? You're

Re: USS Features

2023-08-13 Thread Jon Perryman
> On Monday, August 7, 2023 at 04:33:24 PM PDT, Andrew Rowley > wrote: > It comes back to the question I asked earlier - how much space is it > reasonable to use *to do your job* before you have to get the storage > admin involved? Since you put it that way, I've got to say are you insane.

Re: ransomware on z

2023-08-13 Thread Timothy Sipples
Responding primarily to Tony, I'll just say that when an adversary (internal or external) gains control over the PC that the privileged storage administrator uses, particularly when there's no true multi-factor authentication in the loop, then it's probably "game over." — Timothy Sipples

Re: The ultimate (another one!) definition of mainframe

2023-08-13 Thread Jon Perryman
> On Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 05:54:10 PM PDT, Grant Taylor wrote: >>On 8/7/23 12:26 PM, Jon Perryman wrote: >> Was it a smart decision for IBM to sell the software that became Microsoft? > Please clarify what IBM sold to Microsoft. >   - Microsoft had (MS-)DOS independent of and without

Re: ransomware on z

2023-08-13 Thread Bill Johnson
Mixing fact & fiction. Interesting. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, August 13, 2023, 2:23 PM, Bob Bridges wrote: Seems likely to me that every half-decent scam, without exception, will find gulls in every new generation. Not quite the same thing, but I remember a comment on a

Re: ransomware on z

2023-08-13 Thread Bob Bridges
Seems likely to me that every half-decent scam, without exception, will find gulls in every new generation. Not quite the same thing, but I remember a comment on a bulletin board during one of the wars that sprang up in southern Africa after the white government in South Africa fell and was taken

Re: ransomware on z

2023-08-13 Thread Phil Smith III
Charles Mills added: >The long periods of bad guy access are typical. You read most of the >breach stories the attack unfolded over weeks or months. The hackers >talk about pwning (owning) a group of servers. Oh, I know. I was just noting that I cannot imagine dealing with that kind of ongoing

Re: ransomware on z

2023-08-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
My father was a journalist, and about twice a decade he would write a feature article on scams. I was shocked at the fact that criminals could successfully use well known ancient scams instead of inventing new ones. I would have naíevely thought that nobody in this day and age would fall for

Re: ransomware on z

2023-08-13 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Bob, Few days ago a hospital in central Israel got a ransomware attack by a group of hackers named Block Shadow. Two years ago another hospital was attacked. The total cost of recovering (nothing paid to the attacking group afaik) was estimated about 36 million ILS, about $10 Million USD.

Re: TRSMAIN AMATERSE

2023-08-13 Thread Erik Janssen
It is documented in the original patent as far as I can see, but I haven't looked in dept into both the patent and the java example: https://www.freepatentsonline.com/4814746.html But I'm not sure if that will give you enough information. It depends on what you are trying to achieve with the