RE: Telephone Company warning!

["Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Never been hacked?  I'd heard "no known viruses in the wild" but never heard
a claim that the machine is unhackable.

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Booth Martin
MartinB@Goddard.edu
802-454-8315 x235
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-------Original Message-------
From: java400-l@midrange.com
Date: Monday, December 03, 2001 03:28:36 PM
To: 'java400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Telephone Company warning!
hmmmmm... be nice to know how he did... It would be interesting to see if
IBM's claim that the AS/400 has never been hacked stands up...
dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Silvers [mailto:msilvers@hbs-inc.com]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 3:00 PM
To: Ignite400 List
Cc: RPG400-L; Midrange-L; Java400L List
Subject: Telephone Company warning!
All:
I realize that this is a bit off topic, but I wanted to reach as many AS/400
people as possible....
I was approached by a hacker using Yahoo messenger inquiring about teaching
him everything I could about the workings of an AS/400. He told me that he
was breaking into a telephone company AS/400. He told me that he is using a
dial in connection and he was at the AS/400 and he wanted to sign on.
If there is anyone from a phone company on the lists, you may want to check
for unauthorized users on your system.
He did not tell me (and he might not know) if he was dialing into a network
or directly to the AS/400 (using PPP).
Mike
Mike Silvers
AS/400 Senior Programmer/Analyst
AS/400 IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
AS/400 IBM Certified Solutions Expert
Hainey Business Systems
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Dover, PA 17315
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Phone: (800) 932-3380
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