Re: Anthem Healthcare Hacked

2015-02-08 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
hal9...@panix.com (Robert A. Rosenberg) writes: What is done with the Sensitive Data is importance. In many cases, such as passwords, there is no need to know the actual data but only to compare it with some supplied value to see that it matches. Thus a stored one-way hashed value is secured

Re: Anthem Healthcare Hacked

2015-02-08 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:00 +0800 on 02/08/2015, Timothy Sipples wrote about Re: Anthem Healthcare Hacked: Tom Brennan writes: Maybe someone can tell me what difference it makes whether the data was encrypted on disk or not (as some news reports are talking about). I mean, if I do a SELECT * from an admin id I

Re: ancient cobol applications

2015-02-08 Thread John McKown
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote: Scott: I am far from an expert in these areas but here are some thoughts. From what little I have seen here in IL here are some guesses: 1. Budgets are not only bare bones but are downright disgraceful. Year after

Re: ancient cobol applications

2015-02-08 Thread Clark Morris
On 7 Feb 2015 21:04:11 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2015/02/06/old-computers-state-government-agencies/22953063/ On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 19:50:10 -0500, scott wrote: Which state agencies? Some out of work programmers would probably love to do some

Re: John Ehrman Assembler Book

2015-02-08 Thread Charles Mills
Well, it's only Version 1. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2015 3:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: John Ehrman Assembler Book I took a quick look.

Other COBOL upgrades that might be worth having resend with actual posting was Re: Compile COBOL Programs In 64 Bit.

2015-02-08 Thread Clark Morris
On 14 Jan 2015 16:57:26 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: OOPs, the previous response got sent too soon. Hi,I am looking for COBOL compiler option to compile our COBOL programs in = 64 Bit mode.Please lead me if you have such a experience .The COBOL version= is 4.2 on Z9 with z/OS 1.12.

Re: John Ehrman Assembler Book

2015-02-08 Thread Lizette Koehler
I took a quick look. Seems pretty light at 1250+ pages. Maybe John missed something since the number of pages is so low. ;-D Actually - great job John. Or you can use the tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/qcnzrwc Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List

Re: Anthem Healthcare Hacked

2015-02-08 Thread David Cole
Thanks, Mike. Apparently there is hard evidence after all. I appreciate the post. Dave Cole At 2/6/2015 08:42 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/world/asia/nsa-tapped-into-north-korean-networks-before-sony-attack-officials-say.html?_r=0 On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:32

Re: Other COBOL upgrades that might be worth having resend with actual posting was Re: Compile COBOL Programs In 64 Bit.

2015-02-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: On 14 Jan 2015 16:57:26 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: OOPs, the previous response got sent too soon. snip. If I knew more about some of the newer languages, I might be able to make a good case for

Re: Anthem Healthcare Hacked

2015-02-08 Thread Tom Brennan
More bits and pieces of information in this report, but nothing that really tells me if a mainframe was involved. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/02/07/anthem-hack-80-million-lawsuits-data-privacy/23037879/ -- For