Well 1987 wow before the real firewalls. Security was on the inbound/outbound dial devices. Also worked VM, cut my teeth on VM/SP1 , loved VM, still do, I can how a exec would cause major pain in a VM system, no doubt. z/OS would be a bit tougher I would think, plus a pre-req would be enough knowledge to get in and be able to execute, plus passwords and ids...A lot of research and work ...just to hack a MF Scott J Ford
________________________________ From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, April 13, 2011 6:09:46 PM Subject: Re: Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS [email protected] (Scott Ford) writes: > ________ > ??????? whats it XMASCARD recent post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#9 mentions: there was xmas exec on bitnet in nov87 ... vmshare archive http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse?fn=CHRISTMA&ft=PROB and was almost exactly a year before (internet) morris worm (nov88) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm xmas exec was social engineering ... similar go some current exploits which advertise something that victim has to download and then (manually) explicitly execute (requires victim's cooperation). some additional http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#10 misc. past posts mentioning bitnet (&/or earn) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet which used technology similar to the corporate internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until late '85 or early '86): http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet ... and http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#23 "fix" previous reference (missing trailing "l"): http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml in '89 there was several messages that were sent out that major internal corporate (MVS-based) administrative systems had fallen victim to a virus ... however after several iterations it was eventually announced that the systems were suffering from some bug. this selection of some internet related items/posts starts out with reference to corporate installed email gateway in fall of '82 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
