From Pet Systems to Cattle Farm — What Happened to the Data Center?

There's something about craftsmanship. It's personal, its artistry, and it can be incredibly effective in achieving its goals. On the other hand, mass-market production can be effective in other ways, through speed, efficiency, and cost savings. The story of data centers is one of going from...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2016:1799-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Assessing Mainframe Compliance While Minimizing Operational Impact

While many in the industry consider mainframes to be inherently secure systems that dont require additional hardening, this is not the case, according to recent Forrester surveys which reveal that security incidents are commonplace in mainframes. Mainframes are the backbone of many businesses and...

cics-enum NSE Script

CICS transaction ID enumerator for IBM mainframes. This script is based on mainframebrute by Dominic White . However, this script doesn't rely on any third party libraries or tools and instead uses the NSE TN3270 library which emulates a TN3270 screen in lua. CICS only allows for 4 byte transacti...

tso-enum NSE Script

TSO User ID enumerator for IBM mainframes z/OS. The TSO logon panel tells you when a user ID is valid or invalid with the message: IKJ56420I Userid not authorized to use TSO. The TSO logon process can work in two ways: 1 You get prompted with IKJ56700A ENTER USERID - to which you reply with the...