No. >From the link you cite:
"According to various sources, the hackers succeeded in finding (and exploiting) at least 2 previously unknown errors enabling them to raise their authorisations in the system. One of them was an error in an IBM HTTP server and the other one was an error in the CNMEUNIX file, which in the default configuration has SUID 0 authorisations (which means that by leveraging on the errors it contains, one is able to execute commands with the system administrator’s authorisations)." His "user" access to InfoTorg was not a problem for the mainframe. (It was a problem for the MPAA lawyer whose account he accessed, but not for the mainframe in general.) The above mainframe security vulnerability was. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Monday, May 6, 2019 11:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"? The Pirate Bay hack acquired a valid mainframe userid and password off of a Microsoft laptop. In effect, not really a mainframe hack. He just logged on. https://badcyber.com/a-history-of-a-hacking/ Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, May 6, 2019, 1:21 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: #1: Noooooo. It was a legitimate mainframe hack (assuming you consider USS a legitimate part of the mainframe, which it has been for 20 years or so). It was an exploit of CGI buffer overrun. #2: It drives me nuts to hear mainframers explain away mainframe breaches. "It wasn't really a mainframe hack, they got in through USS." "It wasn't really a mainframe hack, they re-used a Windows password." "It wasn't really a mainframe hack ... whatever." If your CEO was standing in front of the press explaining how your company let x million credit card numbers go astray, would it matter HOW they got into your mainframe, or only that they DID?" If your mainframe is vulnerable to a USS hack, or a shared Windows password, or whatever, you need to fix THAT, or risk having to explain to your CEO why he got fired (like Target's) for letting all those credit card numbers go astray. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2019 10:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"? Wasn’t really a mainframe hack. It was a laptop hack that acquired legitimate mainframe credentials. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
