Re: Has there been in-the-wild i Series virus?

IWS has exactly the same potential problem as the situation Steve describes. It is not a PHP specific problem.

On Mar 24, 2020, at 10:54 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That seems like a powerful argument to go to IWS and web services for non-5250 applications.


On 3/24/2020 9:15 PM, Steve Richter wrote:

what do shops use for their user profile when a PHP script connects to the
IBM i database? Most likely a user profile with a default password.
Couple that with the setup where a single IBM i library contains the data
files of all the applications. That means that a single PHP script has
full access to all your application data.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 4:16 PM Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At one time someone said there has never been an i-Series virus in the
wild? Never knew if it was true then or not.

If it was true, is it still true?

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