Re: z/OS, OS/390 Pen testing tips/ideas/papers?

From: Rainer Duffner (rainer@ultra-secure.de)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 08:57:24 EST


Nick Jacobsen writes:

> Hi all,
> One of my clients has an IBM OS/390 running on one of their networks
> I am doing some security testing on, and considering I really have
> not dealt with any IBM mainframes before when it comes to security,
> I was hoping that some of you might be able to point me the right
> direction. Anything would be helpful, but especially from a
> penetration viewpoint.
 

Are you attacking from internal or external ?
 From internal, you first need a 3270-capable telnet-emulation, like x3270.

Then, go back in the archives to June or so, where I posed the same question
and got some default-passwords, which you can try.

 

Rainer

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