Penetrating an Operating System - Seminal Paper on Hacking       


Security Accomplishment | 1976

IBM researchers: Clement R. Attanasio, Peter W. Markstein, R.J. Phillips

Where the work was done: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

What we accomplishedExcerpt from paper: "A team of penetrator-analysts was  formed  to attempt to penetrate v~/370, with the objective of obtaining information to which they were not entitled, such as passwords or data that belonged to other users. Lesser goals were to acquire an unreasonably  large share of resources in order to deny service to other users, and to obtain resources but escape accountability."

Related links: IBM Systems Journal, 1976, Volume 1, "Penetrating an Operating System:  A Study of VM/370 integrity,"  C.R. Attanasio, P.W. Markstein, R.J. Phillips

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