Anyone who leaves the default passwords on the maintenance ids is a fool and deserves whatever happens, especially if it is a highly privileged userid. Back when the userid IBMCE was universal, I changed its password to AMDAHL. There was one IBM SE at the shop who refused to log on to the id, even though he had the ability to change the password once he had logged on. The other IBM reps at the site thought it was funny and would not change the password for him.
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Kreuter Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hackers I have a distant recollection of back in the 80's some youngster climbed into a vm system at Los Alamos and logged onto MAINT with the password CPCMS !! Don't know if this urban legend or actual but I recall it as actual. This must have been an illegal climb through either dial up or early VTAM. Also last week there was some scuttle about a open zvm system on 67.x.x.x - I'm guessing this was a hercules system - someone logged onto MAINT again - Re XMASTREE: I was working for IBM Canada and helped get the silly thing drained. Now that was an exciting 24 hours! David Kreuter -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tue 4/24/2007 1:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Hackers Truly hacked into. FWIW, I don't consider a crude chain-mail attempt to be a worm. I also do not consider a penetration of a guest such as Linux to be a penetration of VM. Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hackers Do you mean 'truly hacked into' or just an annoying worm? I know of a worm initiated at another VM site and of compromised password= s used by insiders, but not any full-fledged hack by outsiders. /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:33:42 -0700, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot= e: >Does anyone know of a documented case of VM being penetrated by hackers?= > >Regards, >Richard Schuh >
