Chapter 437 The enemy also has back-ups (Thanks to Boss Wang Zi for being the leader)
The battle for national destiny.
After this word popped into my mind.
Abbott's mood suddenly became extremely heavy.
As the Minister of China Strategy, he can be regarded as one of the few non-Chinese people across the sea who can fully understand the term national destiny. In a sense.
The phrase "Make USA great again" essentially refers to the national destiny.
Think of this.
Abbott couldn't help but take a deep breath, a trace of determination flashed in his eyes, and said to everyone:
"Everyone, I will give you 10 minutes to get ready. After 10 minutes, I will activate the 'Titan' vulnerability."
"You will then have at least half an hour to fight with the guardians of China."
"I hope that by then, I will receive news that the Chinese live broadcast signal has been completely interrupted."
"Titan vulnerability?"
The man who looked exactly like Beckham was stunned when he heard this, and his eyes widened immediately.
The seven people present except Abbott are all top hackers affiliated with ThePentagon. Even the weakest one can still rank among the top 20 in the world.
They have done countless dirty things for ThePentagon, so naturally they also know some confidential information on network security.
For example, Titan vulnerability.
This word represents the most advanced vulnerability or mechanism controlled by ThePentagon that has not yet been cracked. It is defined as an important back-up weapon that will only be activated during a nuclear war.
No one knows how many Titan-level vulnerabilities The Pentagon currently has, not even Abbott.
But one thing is for sure.
In the Asia-Pacific region, there will be no more than ten vulnerabilities of this level.
The process of mastering or laying out every Titan vulnerability consumes a lot of manpower and material resources.
And these deadly back-up tactics were prepared for this situation.
Then very quickly.
A wave of IP attacks from 125 countries/regions once again attacked the Academy of Sciences’ defense lines.
Wang Qingchen and others successfully completed the blockade. But in a corner where no one noticed.
A piece of js code content filtered with dangerous characters at a certain input point is rendered and output in a hidden area. A few minutes later.
Within the Cyber Security Department of the Chengdu Convention Center, a horrified voice suddenly rang:
"No, there is an Oday vulnerability in our backend!" Oday vulnerability.
Upon hearing this word, the scene suddenly became silent.
Even Xiaorong, who had been typing the code, paused for a while.
Wang Qingchen also raised his head in surprise, with strong surprise in his tone:
"Oday vulnerability? How is this possible? How could there be an Oday vulnerability in our system?"
Oday vulnerability, also known as "zero-day vulnerability". It is also zero-day.
It refers to a vulnerability that has been discovered secretly, but there is no official patch yet.
In layman's terms, that is.
Except for the vulnerability discoverer, no one else knows that this vulnerability exists.
And the discoverer can use it effectively, and the attacks launched are often very sudden and destructive.
Even giants like Microsoft and Apple.
When faced with attacks from 0day vulnerabilities, we can only make up for it through post-mortem remediation or system upgrades.
For example, in August 2016, the largest vulnerability in the history of Apple's IOS system appeared.
Because it is of extremely high quality and consists of three 0day vulnerabilities, it was named the "Trident" vulnerability.
The user only needs to lightly click on the link sent by the hacker, and the phone will be remotely jailbroken, and the hacker can instantly obtain the highest permissions of the phone - this is the origin of iOS9.3.5.
large enterprise
The price of 0day vulnerabilities is basically around hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in some cases it can even reach millions of dollars.
What only made Wang Qingchen a little shocked and angry was this.
The Academy of Science and Technology has verified all system software before today's live broadcast. Theoretically, it is impossible for Oday vulnerabilities to exist - because the live broadcast framework of the University of Science and Technology is not complicated.
As the strongest institution in the field of computer science in China, the Institute of Information of the Chinese Academy of Sciences can still allow 0day vulnerabilities to exist in such a simple live broadcast system even if it goes all out.
Then these people from the Institute of Information Science and Technology can go to Dujiangyan and jump into the river.
But now is not the time to think about this. Wang Qingchen can only force himself to calm down and ask the speaker:
"Dahuang, at which node does the vulnerability appear? Share it quickly!"
The person who discovered the Oday vulnerability was a tall, thin young man in his early thirties. He was sweating profusely and was typing on the keyboard in a hurry.
But soon.
His movements paused, and he raised his head and looked at Wang Qingchen in astonishment:
"Brother Yi, there's something wrong with this loophole!" "What's the problem?"
The tall and thin young man rubbed his eyes vigorously, and after confirming that he had read correctly, he immediately said to Wang Qingchen:
"The vulnerability is not inside the system, but in the live broadcast line of the conference center, which is the hardware device!"
"Damn converters, signal receivers, and wave frequency debuggers, these devices all have problems - they don't know when they were given decoding permissions!"
"equipment?"
Hearing these words from the tall, thin young man.
Even though the situation was extremely critical at this time, Wang Qingchen couldn't help but be stunned for a few seconds.
But soon.
He reacted, took a deep breath, and ordered: "Xiao Zheng, you should fix the loopholes as much as possible first, and I will take care of the equipment!"
Finished.
Wang Qingchen quickly leaned down and retrieved some content on the computer.
After a few seconds, the content was refreshed. He punched the table hard: "Fuck, these ghosts!" Three minutes later.
Zhan Keren, who is responsible for the general dispatching of network security, hurriedly walked into the room:
"Xiao Wang, I heard something happened?"
Wang Qingchen, who had just defended against an attack, nodded heavily and said to Zhan Keren:
"Director Zhan, there is a very serious situation - the other side of the sea has not tampered with the lines of the Tianfu International Convention Center beforehand, or rather a long time ago."
"Now they have activated this backhand and intercepted all our preset defense codes and sent them to the other side of the sea. That is to say
The 'barrier' we relied on before has now failed."
Zhan Keren's pupils suddenly shrank and asked:
"Xiao Wang, doesn't that mean our live broadcast signal will be cut off?"
Wang Qingchen had a forced smile on his lips and explained:
"That won't be the case - or it won't be for the time being, but after the barrier is destroyed, the advantage we built up by relying on the time difference will be gone. Next, we can only fight with bayonets with bare arms."
After Zhan Keren heard that the live broadcast signal was temporarily unaffected, his chest suddenly relaxed slightly.
It's not the worst case scenario.
As the person in charge of live broadcast data, he knows very well how much attention this type of live broadcast receives from the outside world. It is not at all like some people think, "Will the public really pay attention to this thing?"
for example.
Early morning of June 16, 2016.
The press conference where the LIGO cooperation team announced the results of gravitational waves had a peak global audience of 56 million. Afterwards, the number of discussions on the Internet was as high as 1.24 billion. Domestic hot searches were also posted for several days. There were also black hole photos.
After the black hole photos were released, the number of live broadcasts of the Event Horizon Telescope EHT press conference exceeded 12 million in China alone, and the number of global viewers was about 70 million.
And in the early days of the epidemic, have you not seen how many melon-eaters watched the live broadcast of the construction of the makeshift hospital for hours or even half a day?
So this is not a case of [no one is watching] or [overthinking] at all.
all in all.
Although the current situation is somewhat dangerous, it is not at its worst.
With the answer to the question he was most concerned about, Zhan Keren breathed a sigh of relief and also had the energy to focus on another thing:
"By the way, Xiao Wang, what do you mean by Haidang leaving a backhand on our equipment a long time ago?"
Wang Qingchen took a deep breath and turned over the notebook on the table:
"Director Zhan, look at this."
Zhan Keren leaned down and looked at the screen for a few seconds: "This is it."
Wang Qingchen nodded and explained:
"Yes, this is the equipment bidding document for Tianfu International Conference Center."
"Although the suppliers of the conference center equipment are domestic companies, many of their key components and technologies are imported from across the sea - after all, the International Convention Center is not a military institution in normal times, and many links cannot be entirely made in China."
Zhan Keren pulled down the screen and continued to look at it for a while, thinking thoughtfully:
"In other words, these measures were already deployed when the equipment was imported across the sea?"
This is a fairly reasonable explanation.
He had previously wondered why there was such a big bug like a 0-day vulnerability when all the main forces of the Institute of Information of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were involved.
This vulnerability does not exist within the system, but has been pre-set in the equipment path of the conference center.
Then without waiting for Wang Qingchen to answer, Zhan Keren frowned again:
"But it's not right."
"Not to mention that the Tianfu International Conference Center was completed two years ago, and the equipment was obviously purchased even earlier. Let's just talk about the purpose across the sea. What is their purpose?"
"What value does such a business-type conference center have that would make Haidang willing to risk violating trade security laws and risking the world's disapproval to deploy such a back-up plan?"
Looking at the frowning Zhan Keren, Wang Qingchen couldn't help but glance at Xiao Rong beside him:
"Director Zhan, to tell you the truth, I also had this question at the beginning."
"Until Brother Rong reminded me - this is Chengdu, the absolute core area of China's third-line depth strategy." "Third-line depth?"
Zhan Keren repeated the word, and a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in his mind.
That's it. Yes.
Under normal circumstances, Tiantian International Conference Center is just an ordinary business center.
But once it comes to war, it comes to a critical moment.
Chengdu is bound to become the political center after the transfer - no matter how bad it is, it is also one of the political centers.
And that time.
Tianfu International Conference Center will inevitably have a strong political overtone.
Various meetings, press conferences and even mobilization orders may be held here.
Just imagine.
If at a critical moment, the conference signal is cut off or replaced with some negative images and content.
Then this situation will have a huge impact on morale.
True.
Judging from the current global situation, it is basically impossible for a nuclear war to start, let alone move the line westward.
But things like backhand have little to do with probability, especially for the two big countries.
As long as the probability of something happening is 0.000001%, then it still has the value of being deployed as a backup.
Not to mention that there was a den of thieves in this place, Rongcheng.
This is also the reason why various incidents have occurred many times in Chengdu.
So in Tianfu Conference Center
During the construction period, it is entirely possible for the den of thieves to extend their tentacles into the Tianfu International Convention Center through various overt or covert means.
The explosion of the Oday vulnerability today is both a good thing and a bad thing.
The good thing is that it is equivalent to resolving a major crisis in the future - the scope of this relief is not limited to Chengdu, but includes the whole of China.
It is absolutely impossible that Haidian has only tampered with the equipment in Chengdu. The same loopholes must also exist in other places in the country.
Therefore, after this incident is over, China will definitely conduct strict verification on all sensitive points.
In other words.
This loophole will no longer work.
It’s not that the rabbits have never carried somersaults over the years, it can even be said that they have carried many somersaults, but they have never fallen down on the same thing.
As for bad things, of course they are
The defense system that Xiaorong and the others had finally built had a fatal gap.
Once this gap is not closed, all the calculations of the Academy of Sciences will be in vain.
Due to the urgency of the situation.
Therefore, Zhan Keren only briefly understood some of the problems with Wang Qingchen, and then left the scene with the information related to the problem nodes - he wanted to find someone to replace these equipment as soon as possible.
Wang Qingchen, Xiao Rong and others continued to join the tense defensive front.
Although cyber attack and defense are not as bloody as real battlefields, they have one element in common.
That's morale.
Especially when the strength of the two sides is almost the same, the importance of morale will be magnified many times.
Take this attack and defense for example.
The morale of Setu and others who used the 0-day vulnerability to break into the defense of the Academy was greatly boosted, and many people were in a state far beyond normal. Whether it was Group A or Group B, their respective fronts were being eroded rapidly.
Fortunately, the resources across the sea are not unlimited, so every once in a while, Wang Qingchen and others can get some breathing time.
After repelling an attack from Kevin Poulson, Wang Qingchen glanced at the chaotic scene.
At this moment.
The atmosphere in the entire network security center has reached its lowest ebb, with only the dull sound of keyboard tapping remaining.
See this situation.
A trace of darkness flashed across Wang Qingchen's face.
Academician Pan and others in front of the stage performed so perfectly under heavy pressure, completely controlling the rhythm of the press conference in their own hands, and the institutions involved could only obey their orders.
But the team behind the scenes failed to defend the rear line of defense.
Once the press conference is interrupted due to signal problems. No, the other party does not even need to interrupt the live broadcast signal.
As long as they can cut off the feedback signals from those institutions, the Academy's most critical goal this time - to have those institutions personally verify and personally admit the Academy's correct ideas will be completely in vain.
True.
The Academy of Sciences can still announce the results in front of Higgs, Witten and others, but the influence of the press conference will be reduced to an extremely low level.
Even in the future, when many people mention dark matter, they will think of the bug that appeared at this press conference.
The word "public" does not necessarily represent professionalism, but it can easily negate the so-called professionalism.
No political system or institution can ignore the influence of the masses.
And just when Wang Qingchen's face was blank.
Suddenly there was a warm and heavy touch on his shoulder:
"Xiao Wang, are you ready to give up now?"
Wang Qingchen raised his head and found that Xiao Rong had arrived beside him at some point.
Seeing that Wang Qingchen was still very sad, Xiaorong patted his shoulder a few more times:
"Xiao Wang, do you still remember 22 years ago? The night before the hacker war."
Then, without waiting for Wang Qingchen to answer, Xiaorong continued:
"Our organizer at that time was King,
Lion and Eagle, the commander-in-chief of the attack operation is Bing'er, and the main force is you, me, Ice-Blooded Love, Goodell, Glacier, aullik5, Lonely Swordsman..."
"That night we huddled in the chat room and distributed flood software to everyone. Relying on the Internet speed of tens of kilobytes, we had a rough fight with the other side of the sea."
Listening to Xiaorong’s description,
Even though he was feeling a little depressed at this time, Wang Qingchen couldn't help but have a hint of reminiscence on his face.
have to say.
That is indeed a memory that he will never forget until his death, and it is also the most dazzling song of Huaxia Hongke.
At that time, the technical level on the other side of the sea was at least five years higher than that in China. Their irregular army was able to suppress the other side of the sea and limit the battle loss ratio to 3:7. It has to be said that it was indeed a miracle.
Then Xiaorong paused and said again:
"Xiao Wang, in 2001 we could fight back and forth with the opponent without any defense system. Why is it that now that the Internet has developed, you have no confidence?"
"Whether it's 2001 or 2023, one thing has never changed. Do you know what it is?"
When Wang Qingchen heard this, he forced a forced smile on his lips.
The purpose of Xiaorong's words was obviously to cheer herself up, so what she said next was probably chicken soup for the soul, such as passion, courage and so on.
It's just that as a science student in his forties, Wang Qingchen has already passed the age where he was fed chicken soup.
Moreover, the problems before us are far from being solved by one person - even if the strongest hacker in human history, Kevin Mitnick, is present.
However, considering that Xiaorong said these words for his own good, Wang Qingchen decided to follow Xiaorong's words:
"I understand the things that don't change, Brother Rong, you mean faith, right?"
"I believe you, sir!"
Xiaorong was stunned for two seconds when he heard this. After coming back to his senses, he suddenly gave Wang Qingchen a headache:
"Do you really think that reality is like Japanese comics, and you can beat your enemies to death by shouting a few words about "Oli"?
"I told you that as a forty-year-old, you should watch less chuuni anime and sell the Asunalem figurines at home as soon as possible. There will be no cure for this disease in the late junii stage."
".?"
Wang Qingchen touched his forehead with a confused look on his face: "Then what you said, brother Rong, remains unchanged."
Xiaorong really wanted to give this guy another brain break, but after thinking about it, he decided not to:
"What I'm talking about is human beings, do you understand? - Back when there were so many great players in the Chinese Hongke Alliance, you wouldn't think about swaying others to fight in a team fight?"
"I just contacted Dean Hou, and a group of people will be online within fifteen minutes!"
Xiaorong just finished speaking.
Wang Qingchen's cell phone suddenly rang.
Wang Qingchen subconsciously took out his phone and clicked the call button. After a moment.
A familiar loud voice came from the other end of the phone:
"Old Wang, our University of Science and Technology of China owed you a favor at the University of Science and Technology of China. Now Grandpa, I am here to repay the favor!"
at the same time.
In a chat room software that is almost extinct nowadays, an account named [Ming Boy] suddenly lit up from gray to white.
Then came【KING】【CHINAEAGLE】【goodell】.【Ice-Blooded Love】.【Glacier】.【lion】.22 years ago.
A group of grassroots netizens from all over the country, with their passion, showed the world that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers and roars when encountering injustice.
22 years later.
With Xiaorong's cloud-piercing arrow.
These hard-hearted first-generation Internet celebrities gathered together again because of a summons order without hesitation.
That
A fire started in one year, till now
There is still residual warmth... Note:
Thanks to boss Wang Zi for the reward, and thank you to boss Yeyu Shantao for the 600 yuan reward. I owe more updates QAQ
