--- David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One reason for the absence of reported z/VM system > penetrations may be > > that it is not a target of choice for black-hat > hackers. This follows > > from the argument that there may be far fewer > reports of successful > > attacks on the Mac OS because the Microsoft OS > market share is so much > > greater than theirs, and therefore a much bigger, > desirable, and > availble > > target. > > I'm not so sure this is really comparable. Certainly > in the course of > observing the operation of the LCDS system, there > are a fair number of > assaults by moderately sophisticated attackers, and > z/VM has survived > every one of them intact. >
I don't know how many a "fair number" is but thats a large visible system. Even the most modest Windows system, if placed on the Internet and registered in DNS seems to end up under continual assult... However having run IBM mainframes on public and semi-publicnetworks, I must concur that I have never seen a successfull penetration. I guess its at least 10 years since I have run X.25 on VM on but even then we did get the odd person trying to logon with the "well known" passwords, typically a couple of times a week. As for MACs I note from one of the security list I receieve that some one had had his MAC "penetrated" whilst using it on wireless at a convention. I think it also said that Apple are now releasing securtiy fixes on a more regular basis, but I didn't note the detail. But from what I read it does seem that MAC users should not be comlaceant about security. (Well no one should...) Dave. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
