Although it is an intrusion (with serious consequences) I wouldn't count guessing a userid/password a crack. Likewise gaining access by cracking an attached squatty box.
Gaining access programmatically/directly is another issue. -----Original Message----- Elardus Engelbrecht Joe Mc wrote: >I'm getting into a rather heated argument with a non mainframe >colleague about whether the mainframe has been hacked or not. Legitimate hacking, not a disgruntled employee doing something illegal and not loss of tapes or other media. I'm talking the mainframe platform. Thoughts? What mainframe platform? I'm serious, because 'mainframe' is ambigious. For z/OS, *cracking* into it may be difficult. But see [1] below. With 3270 emulator, 'hacking' *could* be possible by installing 'screen scraper' and/or keystroke logger software. Did that happened? Hmmm, good question. If you do bad design on your web pages hosted by, for example WebSphere, some bad*ss could overwrite your page(s) with some nasty message(s) like this one: 'A L33T was here.' So in theory, it is possible, but if you can get me real practical incident(s) [2], I would really like to find out about it. [1] - There are 'tiger team' companies who can *hack* or *crack* upon request and after paying a fee. [2] - Real incidents, not some rotten fruits from lame bored reporter. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
