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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ $ $ Lex Luthor $ $ and $ $ The Legion Of Doom! $ $ Present: $ $ HACKING COSMOS PART 1 $ $ BASICS $ $ $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ $ $ In this tutorial we will deal with $ $ the very basics of COSMOS, this is $ $ a continuing series in the use and $ $ operation of Bell's COSMOS system. $ $ $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ WRITTEN 20-JUN-84 $ $(C) LOD/PNET TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC.$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ I have seen many philes written on COSMOS in which all they did was to Copy the information out of a COSMOS manual they found while trashing. This tutorial will have some information from the manual, but mainly was writ ten using information of first-hand experience while on the system. ------ COSMOS- COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR ------ MAINFRAME OPERATIONS. COSMOS, is a wire center administration system for subscriber services. Or put another way: an inter-office memo sender. Its primary objectives are: 1)To relieve the problems of congestion and long cross connection on the Main Distributing Frame (MFD). 2)To improve entity load balance and customer line equipment distribution accross the WireCenters switching equipment. 3)To provide an accurate and readily accessible data base for use by all AT&T departments. 4)The Loop Assigment Office (LAC) uses it to generate orders for RAM use. Each Telco has it's own COSMOS system usually one in each Area Code. CAPABILITIES: ------------- COSMOS is POWER with it you can find out alot of info such as: Give COSMOS a number and it will tell you who it's billed to, who its listed under, what types of service they have (touch tone, rotary, flat rate etc.). If a person changes thier fone number you can find out what it was changed to. You can find out numbers by giving COSMOS thier name, even unpublished phone numbers! RISKS: ------ Once unauthorized logins are detected, the COSMOS phone number(s) will be changed immediatly! It0 no big deal for them to change the number, they just send out a letter to thier offices saying it's change0. But they probably throw away those papers and you will be able to find alot of interesting inpho by trashing. Also, most or all calls to COSMOS are traced, or the number has ANI equip ment hooked up to it, so be creful! IDENTIFICATION: --------------- COSMOS logins and proceedures vary from area to area, Some ask for just the login and password without a WireCenter, others require it. The phollowing information is based on Southern Bell's COSMOS system. To Identify a COSMOS system after connecting you will see: ;LOGIN: PASSWORD: WC? The ;LOGIN: is the username, which usually consists of two letters and two numbers ie: PA52. Sometimes NAME: is substituted for, or is required with ;LOGIN: again it depends on what system you are on. Next it will ask for the PASSWORD: which depending on the system, has different formats for passwords. Some make a little sense like BASE52 while others may be eight random characters. Last thing you will see is the WireCenter. A WireCenter is usually an abbreviation of the city that it covers. Such as OA for OAkland or PP for Pembroke Pines, in any case it is two letters. The WireCenter will cover a certain amount of prefixes. And you will not be able to look up other phone #'s unless the prefixes are in the specific WireCenter. The promt for cosmos is the WireCenter and a % sign. IE: WC% where WC is the Wire Center you are logged in as. If you do happen to get ahold of a login and password, but the system still asks for a WireCenter, then you can tell what are valid WireCenters by when it asks for login & password, then the WireCenter and you enter a wrong WC the system will respond with: ;LOGIN: PA52 PASSWORD: WC?XX WC?? INVALID LOGIN If you noticed, WC?? came after the WireCenter, now if you had a valid WC, it would just say INVALID LOGIN after the WC without the WC??. IE: ;LOGIN:PA52 PASSWORD: WC?OA INVALID LOGIN That would mean you have the correct WC, but incorrect password. If all goes well you will get OA% as the promt for whatever your WC is. TRANSACTION CODES ----------- ----- COSMOS has a set of three letter commands called Transaction Codes which tell the system what to do. They enable you to view, modify, or add information about telephone numbers, class of service, Operating Exchanges, etc. Here is a brief description of the most commonly used Transaction codes: CAY - Create an Assembly CCA - Change Customer Attributes DAY - Delete an Assembly DRE - Deny and Restore Establishment FLR - Frame Layout Report ISH - Inquire about a Ciruit <-phone # LOE - List Originating line Equipment MAL - Manual Assignment List MAY - Modify An Assebly MCH - Manually Change Hunt MDC - Manually Disconnect a Ciruit SCA - Service Order Complection - Auto SIR - Sorting Inquiry by Range SLC - Subscriber Line Counts for Custom Calling Features USL - List USOC (US) File Data WCC - Wire Center Change Here's an example of a trsaction, using ISH (Inquire about a circuit) which gives information about a telephone number. WC% ISH H TN 935-2481 It will then print various information about the phone # 935-2481. But it is doubtful you will understand since it is all abbreviated. I will explain everything in Part II. After printing the info about the #, COSMOS will say: ** ISH Completed 20-JUN-84 ** When using certain commands, there are various lines to be used. Some are: H-Line --Required in most transactions for order, inquiry, and report data. I-Line --Transaction involves inward movement (ie: installing a phone). O-Line --Transaction involves outware movement (ie: disconnecting a phone). R-Line -- Used for makin0 remarks to service or work orders. A H-Line was used in this example. To signify the end of input for most commands type "." w/out quotes. You use a ";" to separate ciruits, which is good when you (or the phone co.) has to enter massive amounts of info. PREFIXES, FORMATS AND CODE VALUES: --------- ------- --- ---- ------- COSMOS provides a language by means of which the user can communicate with the system. The language includes various prefixes as well as input formats and input values. PREFIXES are abbreviations which represent specific data categories to the system when input by the user. An example of a prefix is "TN" which means "Telephone Number". An input format defines the number of characters following a prefix as well as the pattern in which these must be entered For example, "TN XXX-XXXX" means that the prefix "TN" must be followed by even characters in the format shown. INPUT VALUES are the allowable data entered for each prefix in the correct input format. As mentioned in the previous paragraph, the input format for the prefix "TN" IS "TN XXX-XXXX". The first three characters (XXX) must be alphanumeric; the last four (XXXX) must be numeric. So, COSMOS would consider an input of "TN 935-2481" as valid input. But ou *must* use the correct WireCenter for the (XXX) in question. In HACKING COSMOS PART II I will have a list of the most commonly used prefixes, formats and prefix code values which enable you to read and understand COSMOS Transactions. COSNIX ------ COSNIX is a mutated version of COSMOS and UNIX both written by Bell Labs. COSNIX, is the operating system of the COSMOS system. SYSTEM COMMANDS ------ -------- As some of you will notice,if you read the basics of Hacking II- VAX's UNIX, by The Knights Of Shadow, alot of the commands used on UNIX are also used on COSMOS. Commands are as phollows: WHERE - gives location of the system: this command can be $VERY$ useful since you can go TRASHING at the location that the center is at. WC% WHERE COSMOS 5 <- or whatever # it is. street address city, state zip WHAT - tells what version of COSNIX the system is running on. WC% WHAT COSNIX operating system 9.2.3 release December 7,1983 14.2.2 March 1,1984 Just like on a UNIX, to see who els is on the system type: WC% WHO COM3 TT00 GB FW56 TT04 HH PA52 TT12 PZ FC55 TT14 OA R052 TT15 PZ In the first column is the username, the nex is thier tt#, and last is the WireCenter. To see what files are in the directory you are logged in on, type: WC% LS To see *All* files you have access to: WC% LS /* Files and Paths will be explained in detail in PARTS II, III. DATE - Simply gives the Date TTY WC% TTY<-Will give you the TeleTypwriter number you logged on as. Using Control-C will Interupt any process you are executing at the time. Sometimes you will have to enter it more than once. Ctrl-S pauses Ctrl-Q restarts and Ctrl-Y logs you off. Thats it for PART I, it should give you a basic understanding of COSMOS. Part II will explain the prefixes so you will be able to interpret alot of the information printed by COSMOS. And will explain paths/files. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: THE WARLOCK TUC - TUCBBS AGRAJA0 THE PROLONGED $$$$$$$$$$$=->Lex Luthor<-=$$$$$$$$$$$ Knights Of Shadow LOD