Mainframe Computers That Handle Our Most Sensitive Data Are Open to Internet Attacks

Mainframe Computers That Handle Our Most Sensitive Data Are Open to Internet Attacks

Mainframe computers have handled our most precious data since the 1960s, but they’re being put online without adequate security.

They’re the machines that won’t die. In the 1960s many airlines, banks, and governments began processing sensitive transactions using giant mainframe computers—and their descendants are still in use. Now it turns out these living dinosaurs of computing also have a very modern vice: they overshare on the Internet.

Mainframe Computers That Handle Our Most Sensitive Data Are Open to Internet Attacks