[Info-vax] OpenVMS books

[Simon Clubley]

On 2017-07-25, seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
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> https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/infosec/primer-openvms-vms-security-604
>

According to the footer line in the document, it was written in 2002
which was 6 years before the 2008 DEFCON revelations about VMS
vulnerabilities.

As soon as some security researchers spent the time to find out
a little _something_ about VMS internals, they discovered pure VMS
vulnerabilities (ie: SMG) which the earlier researchers had missed.

The low figures could simply mean that to date no-one has been motiviated
enough recently to learn enough about VMS internals in order to be able
to probe it for vulnerabilities using modern probing techniques.

Simon.

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