Still a mainframe, and the demonstration of MVS at SHARE was certainly MVS.
What was security like on TSS/360 and TSS/370? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of David Spiegel [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 8, 2021 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mainframe ransomware solution 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 [[email protected]] on behalf of > Bill Johnson [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 7, 2021 6:21 PM > To: [email protected] > 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
