Re: IBM i web security (was SSL public facing web site)

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad,

I highly doubt you will get an example for two reasons.  First if they 
happen it's really rare.  Second, most folks that get hacked have it 
happen because they did not do the due diligence to secure the site and 
they won't admit it.

Most of this is projection from other platforms, if it happens there it 
must be true on IBM i as well, even if it's not.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 4/23/2013 12:52 PM, Bradley Stone wrote:
> Does anyone have an example of manipulating data, running programs,
> compromising security, etc on web server running on an IBM i, or is it
> purely speculative (or improper setup of the Apache config file, network
> mapping, programming, etc?)
>
> I know on other systems there are SQL exploits where you can try to pass
> SQL statements into form fields but in my testing on applications (that
> I've created that use SQL) I couldn't cause this issue.  I've even read
> recently where there are loopholes in things like Ruby on Rails, but I'm
> mainly talking about CGI programs written with RPG and the pbApache server
> running on the IBM i.
>
> I'm not asking for strawman arguments.  We can assume that the config file
> is set up properly, the port mapping is correct, etc.  I would even be
> happy to provide a sample apache config file.  Port 80 and/or 443 are the
> only ports mapped to the i, etc.
>
> I guess what I'm looking for, as are others I'm sure, are some examples on
> how things could go wrong instead of simple speculation.
>
> (sounds like a Friday question! hehe...)
>
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com
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