[email protected] (Roland Kinsman) writes: > So, this is going to sound extremely naïve, but I wonder if having > EBCDIC instead of ASCII helped make IBM mainframe OS less penetrable > to hackers.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix 1) lots of attacks are proportional to number of deployed machines (and public coverage of such attacks tends to be proportional to number of machines). 2) lots of attacks are value of the expected returns making big financial industry mainframes attractive targets. the financial industry is extremely publicity adverse about such attacks ... lots will not be made public. at financial industry critical infrastructure meetings ... one of the biggest issues was insisting that any information sharing would not be subject to FISA. https://www.fsisac.com/about critical infrastructure protection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_infrastructure_protection we were also tangentially involved in the cal. state data breach notification legislation (the original, many other states have passed similar legislation since then). the issue was that little or nothing was being done ... normally entities take security measures in self-protection ... in the case of many of the data breaches, the institutions with the breaches had nothing at risk ... it was individuals. there was some hope that the publicity resulting from the notifications would result in institutions taking corrective actions (as well as allowing individuals to take countermeasures ... like closing account). however, account from long ago and far away (note I didn't learn about these guys until much later) http://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml one the installations became quite active in SHARE and their installation code was CAD (cloak-and-dagger) ... also shows up in vmshare archives http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare misc. other recent posts mentioning P-bit http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#56 New HD http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#72 One reason for monocase was Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#14 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760? -- 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: INFO IBM-MAIN
