Re: "Hackers Quarterly" does the AS/400

Actually not much useful.  Just a primer.  FYI, the one thing suggested was
social engineering to get one of those "all powerful" QSYSOPR passwords.
The hacker is supposed to try several times to log in as QSYSOPR.  When the
account is disabled, you call the help desk and pretentd to be an actual
operator and try to get a new password.

The article on hacking COSTCO was a description of menu items for their POS
system and how to abuse them.  If anyone on this list is with COSTCO, they
may want to watch their systems a little more closely.




At 09:15 AM 7/1/99 -0400, you wrote:
>But were the articles helpful to a mischief maker?  Was there any
>information not publicly available and easily found?
>
>In <2.2.32.19990701033806.00afd490@earthlink.net>, on 06/30/99 
>   at 08:38 PM, "V. Leveque" <vleveque@earthlink.net> said:
>
>>For all you concerned about security:
>
>>The magazine 2600 "The Hacker Quarterly" has 2 articles on AS/400
>>hacking. One is an overview, the other gets into the details of COSTCO's
>>retail system.  Fortunately the first article is very basic and even
>>wrong in a few points (QSYSOPR is NOT "root")  Unfortunately, both these
>>articles will inspire more mischief.
>
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