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Episode: Philip “Soldier of Fortran” Young - From root to SPECIAL: Pwning IBM Mainframes
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From root to SPECIAL: Pwning IBM Mainframes
Philip “Soldier of Fortran” Young
1.1 million transactions are run through mainframes every second worldwide. From your flight to your ATM withdrawal a mainframe was involved. These critical, mainstays of the corporate IT world aren’t going anywhere. But while the hacker community has evolved over the decades, the world of the mainframe security has not.
This talk will demonstrate how to go from meeting an IBM, zSeries z/OS mainframe, getting root and eventu...