Chapter 52: Zero-Day Vulnerability
Money laundering, some computer-related matters, indispensable to someone to deal with.
When Ye Dongqing first met Paul Kutcher, this guy found some information about him from the FBI's file library, and hurriedly seized the time to destroy the evidence in advance, thus avoiding a prison sentence.
The cost of two million dollars is nothing compared to squatting in a small black house, and then Paul Kutcher started working for him, earning millions of dollars a year.
It's ridiculous to say, they have known each other for almost three years, and then they met for the first time in real society, because they can talk, coupled with Ye Dongqing's deliberate wooing, they have a very good relationship with each other, otherwise they would have come to attend his father's funeral.
This time, I began to wash my hands and go ashore to do a more formal business, and the reason why I went all the way to Mount Vernon today is to reacquaint myself with my old friend and ask him to help him do something, and second, to pull the other party ashore to prevent Paul from repeating the old path and living a life of hiding everywhere.
As a social animal, humans naturally like to socialize with others, and Ye Dongqing does not have many friends, out of nostalgia for the old thinking, after solving the problem of eating and drinking, he found the door for the first time.
Miss Laura took a few deep breaths, got out of the car and walked across the yard to the door, raising her arm to ring the doorbell.
The camera at the door turned, and a voice suddenly sounded: "Who are you, what are you doing at my house?"
"Paul Kutcher? Somebody asked me to tell you something. ”
Laura heard the abnormal noise, followed the sound and saw the camera, and was still moving with her movements, her expression couldn't help but become nervous, thinking that she was pitted by Ye Dongqing, and saw that the Mercedes-Benz big G was still parked there in the distance, so she was a little relieved.
“…… What's the matter?"
"My boss said that he knew about Microsoft's zero-day vulnerability last year, and if he didn't want to go to jail, he would come out and talk to us, and he needed a little favor from you. ”
Just paraphrasing Ye Dongqing's words, Laura doesn't even know what a "zero-day loophole" is, let alone the relationship between Ye Dongqing and Paul.
Zero-day vulnerabilities, also known as zero-day attacks, refer to security vulnerabilities that are maliciously exploited immediately after being discovered, Paul discovered a security vulnerability in the Windows-XP operating system, and then anonymously contacted Microsoft, threatening to attack users of the Microsoft XP operating system without paying money, and paralyzing thousands of computers, in order to prove that he is indeed powerful.
At that time, the Windows-XP system had just been launched, and Microsoft was worried about causing panic among users, so it put $1.6 million into an account according to his request, which was a cybercrime, and at the same time involved extortion.
In the room on the second floor, a young man named Paul Kutcher instantly became nervous, and he planned to run away at the first time, but his name and home address were known to the other party, so even if he ran, where could he run? For hackers, leaking real information means bad luck.
Lifting the curtain and looking out, there was only a black Mercedes cube on the side of the road, and he could see a man in a suit, waving at him.
Paul's heart was cold, and he couldn't guess whether he was targeted by the police or found out by his peers, no matter what, it meant a tragedy.
Heartbeat is off the charts.
Ye Dongqing has become younger, Paul is only twenty years old, and he has a good set of computers, he dropped out of school early and went home to make money through the Internet, and lied to his parents that he would help others maintain the security of the firewall.
In case his parents knew that he had sinned, Paul didn't dare to continue thinking about it, and after weighing the pros and cons for a long time, he finally decided to talk about it first......
Going downstairs and opening the door, only a slit was revealed, he stared at Laura with a wary gaze, and asked, "Who is your boss, someone from Microsoft, right?"
Laura didn't know how to answer, shook her head and looked at the side of the road, only to see that Ye Dongqing had already walked over with her hands in her pockets.
It's a strange and weird feeling to be younger and younger to your friends.
The sloppy man with a full beard in his impression is gone, and the Paul in front of him looks immature no matter how you look at it. Ye Dongqing stretched out his hand to push the door and walked in, not polite at all, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth:
"Take it easy, man, I didn't report your thoughts to the police, it wouldn't do me any good, more than a million dollars, right?
It's a good idea to keep your money in the Cayman Islands for a long time, and maybe I can give you some good advice to transfer the money to the United States, otherwise you won't be able to use it. ”
Paul Kutcher was completely dead after listening to it, he couldn't even think of it, this is the story he told Ye Dongqing as a joke more than ten years later.
He didn't ask how he found out, but he was more concerned about another thing: "What do you want me to do for you? Maybe we can make a deal that is good for both of us! ”
"I found you just to get you help. ”
Came to the living room sofa and sat down, Ye Dongqing crossed Erlang's legs, he felt that it was very good to tease an old friend, judging from Paul's face, he should be scared to death.
"Say, you want me to do something for you. ”
"No trouble, I found my long-lost sister, but she is now being sent to the Children's Relief Society.
If I don't find a way, she'll soon be adopted, and I just want her to come back to me. Please hack into their system and help fix some of the files so that we can settle the matter between us, and it will be a good deal for you. ”
Paul didn't believe it, but it was much easier than he thought it would be to be sent to the Children's Relief Society, which meant that most of them were orphans and children to be adopted.
Now he was bent on getting out of trouble, and decisively agreed: "I can try, it shouldn't be too much trouble to break through the firewall of the Children's Relief Society, I have to make sure that they use electronic documents to record information, and if I use paper documents to save information, I can't help much." ”
"It's the twenty-first century, it won't be so old, try it now, I'll go with you." Ye Dongqing got up and said.
Next to her, Laura didn't know why, she only knew that Ye Dongqing's parents died, and as for whether there was really a sister, she didn't hear him talk about it.
Paul was caught by the little tail and sincerely resisted letting them into his room, but in this case he could not refuse, so he had to lead the way with a frown.
Thinking about how to fight back in his mind, he suddenly remembered that the other party could even find out his own family and his own name, and began to worry that he would be retaliated against after revenge, so he was very aggrieved, and vowed to dig out Ye Dongqing's old bottom.
Hackers in the network are terrifying, they seem to be able to call the wind and rain and cause great damage.
The scene changes to reality, Paul is just a weak chicken who is not very daring, hates sports, and doesn't even dare to talk to him, the room is messy, and there is a "Playboy" on the bed.
The bunny girl on the cover is quite sexy, but Ye Dongqing doesn't want to take it, who knows what Paul's hand touched first when he flipped through the magazine......