Need for little hackers

Chapter 192 Another Year ([-]) Yes, Viruses
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As the Lunar New Year approaches, it brings joy and pain to people, especially those who have left their hometowns and try to rush back to their hometowns for reunion at this time. Undoubtedly, Spring Festival travel is an eternal topic that must be discussed during this time period.

To be more specific, tickets are not easy to buy.

During the Spring Festival travel season, there are crowds of crows in the ticket halls of railway stations, bus stations, and temporary ticket offices in squares in Xizhou City.Even the wind and snow can't stop their motivation to buy tickets, more precisely, their mood to go home.

The province where Xizhou City is located is a large province for migrant workers, with a registered population of more than 5000 million and a floating permanent population of tens of millions. One can imagine the heavy traffic pressure during the Lunar New Year.

The ticketing system of the transportation network has become the beginning of all these pressures.

Online ticketing is the pinnacle of pressure.

On a small street in Gongshu District, Xiao Wu, a migrant worker who just finished the night shift at a nearby factory, ran towards an Internet cafe at the end of the street regardless of the wind and snow. Early in the morning, there must be very few people surfing the Internet. It must be very fast, the train ticket should be able to grab it.

He remembered the ticket-grabbing skills introduced by his co-workers, and installing a ticket-grabbing software on his browser would increase his efficiency by more than half.

He was going to try it later. In order to find out how to install the ticket grabbing software, Xiao Wu specially invited his workers to have a supper in the cafeteria, which cost a lot.

As soon as Xiao Wu stepped into the Internet cafe, he gasped, not to mention the smoky atmosphere. In front of each computer, there were two or three people surrounded, pointing at the screen: "Look at Sazi, this is what happened."

They all buy tickets online, and it seems that there are not a few fellow villagers and workers who have the same thoughts as themselves.

Xiao Wu was dejected and got the chance to buy tickets online with his ID card and deposit!

He tried to input a few words of ticket-grabbing software into the browser, and the browser displayed the search results. A certain search site recommended his own ticket-grabbing software, and Xiao Wu was confused. Similarly, he heard news about hackers stealing account passwords and money, so he hesitated to click this software.

At this time, a girl sitting next to him said to him: "Who still uses ticket-grabbing software now! They use the website to grab tickets by themselves!"

Xiao Wu's eyes widened, not knowing why.

The girl's accent is from the Northeast, and she is capable. She grabbed his mouse and opened another browser, SPE, on the desktop.

She said to Xiao Wu: "This is it!"

Xiao Wu curiously entered the information of the ticket-buying website into the address bar, and the page of the ticket-buying website popped up in the browser. He filled in the account name and password according to the information he had registered, and looked at the girl again, she was staring at him, Xiao Wu I'm a little embarrassed.

"Enter quickly." The girl urged Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu blushed. Looking at the browser page, it was different from before. A dialogue window popped up, which read: Please enter your destination, departure place, departure time, and please enter your desired train number , if there is no requirement for the train number, please leave it blank.

The girl said: "You type!" She was a little anxious about Xiao Wu's dullness.

Xiao Wu clumsily typed the name of the train station of his hometown and Xizhou Railway Station on it, and clicked OK, and another window popped up: the database of the train ticketing system has been connected.

In less than 30 seconds, it was still a long time for Xiao Wu, and finally a long message popped up: There are currently seven days of train information, please choose.

A countdown appeared next to the screen, and the girl said, "Hurry up, hurry up, if the time is exceeded, there is no way to choose."

Xiao Wu only wanted to buy a cheap ticket, so he took care of the time and train number, and looked at the cheapest train number, clicked the mouse to select it, and immediately entered the payment link.

Another reminder pops up in the SPE browser window: In the SPE browser payment mode, we can ensure your payment security.

"Don't look, pay quickly." The girl was like a mentor, teaching him bit by bit.

Xiao Wu forked off the reminder, entered his bank card number and password, and after clicking Confirm and entering the SMS verification code, he finally got a reminder that the ticket was purchased successfully, as well as a mobile phone text message.

He shouted: shout! ! !

Xiao Wu looked at the time on the computer, and it only took 5 minutes from entering the Internet cafe to buying the ticket, which was beyond his expectation, and he thanked the girl repeatedly.

The girl smiled slightly, and said carefreely: "It's nothing, it's just the SPE browser that works." She frowned slightly, and Xiao Wu asked curiously: "Then why are you still here? Didn't you buy a ticket?"

The girl sighed angrily, and said: "We are too far away, we want to buy a sleeper berth, and it is not on sale yet, just to raise the SPE browser, we just hang up this machine and keep it, we just need to confirm the requirements Well, we will buy our own tickets when we leave it."

Xiao Wu was extremely curious.Need a browser?It's not a pet, what do you keep?

The girl didn't pay attention to him anymore, she and her companions studied how to raise a browser on their own.

Xiao Wu wanted to get off the plane and go back to the dormitory to sleep, but when he looked at the girl beside him, he felt a little different in his heart. After thinking about it, he left the Internet cafe, bought a few cups of hot milk tea from the milk tea shop next door, and brought them back to the Internet cafe. , Keep a glass for yourself, and pass the rest to the girl.

The girl was taken aback, and Xiao Wu scratched the back of his head: "You help me buy the ticket, and I'll treat you to milk tea!"

The girl laughed and turned around to share with her companions. At this time, another girl operating the computer yelled: "Fuck, the network administrator, I'm disconnected, what a mess, can you still open the door for business? I've been busy for a long time. Fucking waste."

The girl was extremely irritable, swearing profanely, took two gulps of the milk tea in her hand and threw it on the table, forcing the network administrator who came over to pay for the damage.

Before the network management could deal with it clearly, the entire Internet cafe shouted: "Dropped, dropped."

Only then did the network administrator realize that the entire external network was offline.He ran to the cabinet in a panic. The status of the router was normal, at least the line was unblocked, but why couldn't he access the Internet?

The network management pings the external network, but nothing works.After leaving the local gateway, the packets are all lost.

The network administrator finally came to a conclusion, immediately grabbed the phone and called the operator, but the answer he received made him feel relieved for a moment.

"The entire network is down." "When will it be better!?"

"Then who the hell knows! It should be soon. It is estimated that there is something wrong with the optical fiber of the backbone."

"Maybe the fiber optic cable was cut by brutal construction."

"That's fast. The repair will only take a few hours. The higher-level network management will adjust the line later and use other lines as a temporary channel. Don't worry."

The operator's maintenance personnel did not expect that this dialogue was repeated several times in the following hours, but did not wait for any changes.

After several hours of busy work, they discovered that the mobile phone signal was also lost. Finally, they received a fax notification: the main computer room and the line had unexplained network fluctuations, which caused the network from the Taozhen.com computer room to the whole city to be paralyzed. The provincial company is dispatching personnel to speed up repairs, please do a good job in user explanation.

Unexplained network fluctuations, this word is so strange!
Is it a hardware problem?Whether it was a software problem, a virus, or a hacker attack, the notice was so vague that it made them even more curious.

It's just that there is no network to transmit information, which is a pity, otherwise these fax speculations are worth gossip.

But what everyone is terrified of is that not only is there a problem with the network of a certain operator, but the entire network is paralyzed, not just the Internet, but the mobile phone network of all operators, whether it is 2g, 2g, 5G and 3G are all paralyzed, and the only communication method that can keep running is the fixed telephone network, of course, the satellite call list.

The way of news dissemination returns to the traditional, television, radio, and word of mouth.

Curious people waited for a long time and finally got an answer in the live broadcast of the TV station. Xizhou City disappeared in the Internet world as a whole.

This is the first time that a region has completely disappeared from the Internet world since the Internet was born and popularized in the human world.

Moreover, there have been no wars, disasters, or plagues in this area.

Lost the usual communication channels, people's long-standing distrust of TV and radio broke out at this moment, rumors spread quickly, a major event happened, the government concealed the truth, and isolated the entire Xizhou City.

Then the major events became the plague, H1N1, H7N9, etc., and the spread of rumors gradually intensified.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Xizhou City leaders, who have always shown themselves to be open-minded and enterprising, appeared on the live broadcast of Xizhou TV Station and issued a public statement to nearly tens of millions of people in Xizhou City: Xizhou City was only disconnected from the Internet. , What has been found out so far is that a constantly mutating network virus is circling in all the computer rooms, causing the overall network to be paralyzed.Citizens are requested not to believe rumors or spread rumors.And please pay more attention to CCTV news, there will be more authoritative releases.

Sure enough, CCTV soon invited some telecommunications experts and Internet experts to explain the reason why the entire network of Xizhou City is currently paralyzed.

Viruses are caused by viruses.This has become the consensus of everyone, and then everyone also believed that with the assistance of the national elite, the network should be restored soon.

But people were disappointed. At a certain node, the outbreak of the network virus was temporarily suppressed. People could log in to QQ and open the webpage. In just half an hour, the network virus erupted again, and the node quickly missed.

The maintenance personnel in the operator's computer room can clearly feel that after a short period of calm, the machines in the computer room burst into uncontrollable information broadcasting instantly, and the dark computer room was illuminated by the flickering orange LED indicator light. The weirdness made the maintenance staff shudder.

As if there was a devil lurking behind these broadcast storms.

The weird thing is not only in the computer room, but what surprised everyone is that the virus is only entrenched in Xizhou City and has not spread outside. You must know that there is a nuclear power plant not far from Xizhou City. If the network of the nuclear power plant is affected , this crisis is not as simple as ordinary citizens not using the Internet.

People began to spread some jokes like the virus likes Xizhou by word of mouth, or that Xizhou is a city that you don’t want to leave when you come.

In the operator's temporary command center, IT and communication experts from all over the country gathered together to start research on this network virus, which was labeled as Xizhou virus.

People analyze some code information from a large number of data packets captured on the Internet, but the intercepted data is not consistent each time, and the analyzed results are some common request data, but these data consume all network resources.

In other words, the request data sent by everyone on the network is disturbed when it is transmitted on the network line and loses its target.

It's as if the chickens and ducklings were blinded and ran around in the farm.

To put it more vividly, the data packets on the network line have become headless chickens.

A network security expert suggested that in the temporarily built demonstration environment, cut off the connection with the external network, and then shut down the switch, router, server, terminal, firewall, and bastion machine in turn, but nothing was found.

After that, I simply shut down all the devices in this small local area network, and then turned it on again. I found out by accident that this small local area network returned to normal.

Once connected to the external network, it was immediately captured by the Xizhou virus.

This discovery made the network security experts extremely excited. They immediately followed suit and began to capture data packets while reconnecting to the external network until all devices except the packet capture machine were shut down.

They finally got the instigator of the Xizhou virus, the virus they called the Xizhou host, that is, the guy who blinded the eyes of the chickens and ducklings.

The volume of the Xizhou host is only 3k, but the code is rich, very creative, and even full of wisdom. Experts can't even study it clearly.

But as long as they found a part of its code, the experts quickly developed the special killing tool. After several tests, they made new discoveries. After so many troubles, they finally released the first special killing tool. At this time, there is no distinction between anti-virus manufacturers and the enemy, and they are all released at the first time.

The so-called total suppression and annihilation.

But now it was the afternoon of the second day, and the Internet world finally saw the data stream from Xizhou City again.

When TV stations and various media began to calculate how much loss Xizhou City had caused in this accident, someone suddenly discovered that the accident was not simply Xizhou City, but the entire e-commerce community, especially Taobao. Zhenwang is the e-commerce ecosystem of the platform.

In other words, netizens across the country were unable to shop online at the last moment before this year, which is simply a tragedy.

But there are joys and sorrows, JD, DD, SN and the rising star - Life Online, all earn a lot of money.smiling.

The most surprising thing is that even after the Internet service of Taozhen.com returned to normal in Xizhou City, the network access is still fragile, and access to Taozhen frequently occurs.

According to Alexa's access traffic records, Taozhen.com had no traffic during the more than 30 hours of the Xizhou virus outbreak, but after the restoration of access, after the data surge, the entire traffic was in a trough due to the instability of the access service. The decline is shocking.

Traffic is life for e-commerce, and this situation has been reflected in the stock market. Investors in the United States are full of worries about this. The stock of Taozhen.com has plummeted all the way, and its market value has been cut by a quarter to nearly 800 billion.It almost caused investors to collectively sell their stocks.

The top floor of Taozhen Office Building in Taozhen Industrial Park
Niu Wu slapped the table, kicked over tens of thousands of dollars of tables, chairs and benches, and went berserk and violent. All the engineers in R&D, technology, operation and maintenance in front of him held their breaths and remained silent.

They didn't dare to say anything, and they were unwilling to say anything. No matter what the answer was, they could only bring Niu Wu's abuse like a shrew.

The servers in all the computer rooms in Taozhen Industrial Park have undergone strange changes. Regardless of data observation or process changes, the servers are showing normal operation, but once there is data access, data packets will be lost during the data exchange process.

This makes the technicians puzzled, replace a new server, or redeploy some of the machine systems, whether it is Linux or windows, it is normal at the beginning, but after a few hours, the fault will reappear .

They didn't observe any abnormalities, so they were naturally helpless.

Someone suggested that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology invite some information security experts, or directly spend money to invite top security system experts from various security companies across the country to assist the company to solve the current problem.

But this proposal was scolded by Niu Wu as a bloody sprinkler.

Niu Wu cursed angrily: "A bunch of useless trash." The meeting ended.

The engineers were relieved. They either chose to continue the fierce battle to solve the problem, or they chose to leave work on time, and it was nine o'clock in the evening to leave work on time.

But more people choose the latter.

The pressure is high, but it should not be placed on these ordinary engineers.

Niu Wu drove away those engineers, and immediately called Colonel Yan: "Old Yan, how is the situation?"

"Alas." Colonel Yan was full of bitterness: "The databases in BJ, Shanghai and Xizhou, the hot standby, have been destroyed, and none of the data is left behind. There were no problems."

"This fucking must be the work of that kid Qi Na." Niu Wu gritted his teeth and cursed. He is not technical, but he doesn't use intuition or analysis. With his ass, he knows that it must have something to do with Qi Na.

The problem is they have no proof!
Colonel Yan spat and cursed on the phone: "Fuck, don't worry about it, I'll arrange for someone, and I'll arrest him today. I don't believe I can't kill him. If you fight for the big block, you don't want it, but you have to get his little one." braid."

He regretted it so much. If he had known earlier, he would have backed up a large amount of data, even if it was all printed into paper materials. Even if there were too many data, what if a few printers were damaged?

"Okay, old Yan, just do it. If something goes wrong, I'll take care of you." After finishing speaking, Niu Wu arranged for the secretary to contact Lao Yan's family and young lover.

Colonel Yan hung up on Niu Wu's phone, and a few minutes later he received a call from his wife and lover. Knowing that Niu Wu was signaling to him, his heart filled with poems about a strong man who is gone and never returned, and squeezed a few drops for himself without hypocrisy. tears.

Then he called the director of the network intelligence department of the National Intelligence Agency.

The heavy snow seems to be caused by extremely abnormal weather.

In the north of Xizhou City, the high-speed rail to Ningnan was also suspended due to this.Stop at a station.

Passengers were asked to get off the bus, and then one bus after another transferred the passengers to nearby hotels and hotels for a temporary stay.

Qin Na put her arms around Zheng Xiumin, they couldn't get in touch with the driver of the commercial vehicle, and they didn't bother to bother, so they just bought a high-speed rail ticket and went back to Ningnan.

They didn't take the bus, but stayed in the waiting hall, waiting for the high-speed train to run again. Qina wrapped her in his down jacket. The front and back of the waiting hall were transparent, and the cold wind was blowing, like an ice cave. Qina comforted her softly Looking at Zheng Xiumin: "It's okay, nothing will happen."

I just don't know what he meant by nothing?
Zheng Xiumin felt uneasy when she thought about the weird Xizhou virus and the host virus reports.

(End of this chapter)