Chapter 172: The First Cyber War

"Yes!" Liu Xiao nodded, flood attack, IP anywhere may be there, but as soon as he spoke, he saw the strange expressions of those experts, Hillar also looked at himself again and again, Liu Xiao was stunned, thought about it carefully, and suddenly changed color, and hurriedly said: "But it is also possible!"

The Minister of National Defense and Security looked at Liu Xiao: "Is there any?"

"Theoretically, with such a large flow of flood attacks, there will be a lot of attackers, and they may come from any country in the world, including Estonia!" Liu Xiao said a non-painful nonsense.

The Minister of Defense and Security was visibly disappointed and waved back, "You guys get to work!"

I saw that several officers behind him quickly stepped forward and began to check the logs of the firewall and the server, these people should be military computer experts.

Hillar took everyone out of the computer room, and after walking out of the building, Liu Xiao always wanted to thank Hillar, but with so many experts present, Liu Xiao never had a chance to speak. This flood attack, as long as a person who understands, can guess who did it, but the evidence is the most difficult to find, once you just said the wrong thing, then your own words, will immediately become the evidence of the Estonian ZF attack, and finally you will be inexplicably involved, becoming a scapegoat with a black pot.

Everyone got into the car, Hillar looked at Liu Xiao: "Mr. Liu, after really reading the log of your product today, I am convinced by the technology of the soft alliance, and the incident at the black hat conference seems to be no accident, your safety technology is indeed a grade ahead of Europe and the United States." In the past, we have neglected the development of China's security technology, and it seems that more attention will be paid in the future. ”

"The technology is the same technology!" Liu Xiao smiled, "It's just that the concept is different!"

Several other experts did not speak, the firewall of the soft alliance had a great impact on them today, under the flood attack of the other party, the security experts of Estonia did their best, and in the end it was also the result of the paralysis of the network system of ZF and the bank, and this secondary ZF publicity website was unattended, under the correct decision of the soft alliance firewall, it was preserved, which can not but be said to be a miracle. The level of security in Estonia is evident throughout Europe.

"Your products have passed the test, I will immediately set up a procurement office after I go back to purchase your products in large quantities, I will use your security products on all key networks in Estonia!" Hillar sighed, if you can adopt the products of the soft alliance earlier, Estonia will not suffer such a big loss this time, it seems that I will trust the talents of the procurement office more in the future.

"Thank you, thank you!" Liu Xiao smiled politely, "It seems that my trip was not in vain, and I finally made some gains!"

When Hillar heard this, he suddenly looked back at Liu Xiao, opened his mouth and didn't speak, then shook his head and turned around again.

Liu Xiao was surprised, "Mr. Hillar, what's wrong with you, is there anything wrong?"

Hillar shook his head and sighed, "Your words just now made me suddenly have a delusion!"

"Illusion?" Liu Xiao frowned, "What illusion?"

"Hehe......" Hillar smiled, "I almost thought that Mr. Liu had foreseen that Estonia would suffer such a catastrophe, so he appeared here at this time to promote your firewall specially designed to resist data flood attacks!"

"How is this possible, this time it's a pure coincidence!" Liu Xiao denied it again and again, a layer of cold sweat oozed out of his back, twice in a row today, he almost came out of his mouth, it seems that every word he says in the future, he must think carefully about it, otherwise he will get carried away, and he will say something that will cause unwarranted disasters, "If I can really predict that Estonia will be hacked, just issue an early warning, and the soft alliance will become famous, why bother to come all the way here to promote products!"

Hillar nodded and said with a smile: "I'm just a delusion, just joke, Mr. Liu, don't take it to heart!", after a pause, Hillar continued: "Mr. Liu's trip can be called a complete success, these people in the car are the top experts in Europe, they have seen the power of your products today, and they will help you promote them after you go back, and your products will definitely sell well!"

Liu Xiao got up and said, "I thank you in advance, the soft alliance will definitely visit you one by one in the future!"

Several experts politely said nothing.

After Liu Xiao sat down, he sighed and said: "This time can't be regarded as a consummation, Estonia suffered this catastrophe, which is a shame shared by all of our security people, and I myself feel the same way." This experience is a spur and reminder to our soft alliance, safety is endless, and we will continue to work hard to make more perfect safety products!"

Liu Xiao's words made Hillar feel very comfortable listening to it, for the Estonian experience, Liu Xiao did not say sympathy, pity and the like, but from the perspective of a safe person, he pulled himself and the Estonian people together, which made Hillar feel that Liu Xiao was sincere, as a safe person, only to make better safety products is the greatest help to others.

Hillar looked at Liu Xiao: "I hope that in the future, we can strengthen cooperation and exchanges in the field of security!"

"Yes! This is what we want!" Liu Xiao nodded in response, "If Estonia is in need, our soft alliance can form a team of experts to come over, even if it is to do some small things, as long as we can make Estonia's network return to normal one day earlier, we are also very willing to do it." ”

"I'll speak up if there's a need!" Hillar smiled and nodded, "But now as long as you can provide a large number of firewall products, it will be the greatest help to us!"

"I came this time, the company only gave me three sets of authorized products, I have used one set before, and the remaining two sets, I can provide them to you for use in a while, completely free!" Liu Xiao finished speaking, "However, if you need more products, you must place an order with the soft alliance by your purchasing office to get them." ”

"I know!" Hillar nodded, this product is a high-end product, the price must be expensive, and it is already good to give three sets for free, "When we count the specific required numbers, we will let the purchasing department place an order!"

Liu Xiao and the others drove back to the computer response center, Estonia has temporarily transferred all the domain names of the president's and congressional websites to the website that has not collapsed, and the Estonian people will automatically jump over no matter which public website ZF visits at this time, and this only surviving website has become the only platform for ZF to publish authoritative news on the Internet.

Back at the computer response center, Will was already waiting there, Liu Xiao was called away in the middle of the night, he was really worried, as soon as he saw Liu Xiao's message, he quickly rushed over, if Liu Xiao really had an accident, he couldn't explain to the above.

"Liu Xiao, are you okay?" Seeing that Liu Xiao was safe and sound, Will's heart finally relaxed.

"It's okay!" Liu Xiao shook his head, then turned his head to look at Hillar, "Mr. Hillar, I'm going back to the hotel now, you can send someone over and get those two sets of products back by the way!"

"Thank you!" Hillar waved after speaking, called an assistant, and instructed him to follow Liu Xiao to get something, and then said: "Disturb you in the middle of the night, I should have sent you back in person, but you also know the situation on my side, I really can't get out, Mr. Liu will have a good rest after he goes back, I won't send you!"

"It's okay, you're busy!" Liu Xiao responded with a smile, estimating that Hillar would be busy next.

Back at the hotel, Liu Xiao handed over the remaining two sets of firewall installation discs to Hillar's assistant to take away.

As soon as Will saw the outsiders leaving, he hurriedly asked, "What are they looking for you?"

"It's okay!" Liu Xiao waved his hand, "After the Estonian ZF announced the results of the disposal of the statue of the Soviet army, the network was attacked, and all the ZF publicity websites were paralyzed, only one website with our products was spared, and they asked me to go over and take a look at the situation." ”

"Oh!" Will nodded, and said: "As soon as I went out in the morning, I didn't feel right, the phone and mobile phone didn't work, so I hurried to the hotel to see you, you're fine!"

"Let Mr. Will worry about me, thank you!"

Will smiled, "You're welcome, it's my duty to take care of everything you have in Estonia!", after speaking, he stood up and walked to the window to look out, and said: "It seems that this attack is quite serious, those marchers yesterday had already dispersed, and today they gathered again." Once people here leave the Internet, their lives are completely chaotic, and even simple things like going out to buy food in the car can become very difficult. I heard that the bank network has also suffered a bit this time, you see, there are hundreds of meters of people queuing in front of the bank, and if everyone wants to withdraw money from their accounts, then the banks in Estonia will have to close!"

Liu Xiao didn't speak, in China, the two Haicheng incidents have already made him see the power of cyber attacks, and this time in Estonia, he has a new understanding of the power of cyber attacks.

In the past 20 years, the Internet has developed rapidly, people's daily life, more or less have to use the network, and in Estonia, people can be said to rely entirely on the network, when the network is normal, everything is so convenient and fast, and the network suddenly collapsed, people become unable to move an inch, even the most basic life can not be guaranteed, coupled with the paralysis of telecommunications and mobile networks, people have become a complete deaf in terms of obtaining information, once this situation lasts for too long, anything will happen, and even threaten the stability of the Estonian regime。

The development of the Internet continues, and informatization is a trend, even if there are hidden dangers of insecurity, it cannot stop its development. Estonia's incident today is not the end, but just the beginning, and as long as you are not careful, this kind of thing will happen in other countries and regions of the world. It comes silently, without gunsmoke, without shock waves and radiation, and without the loss of life, but it can instantly paralyze a country, and there is probably no weapon in the world that can cause such a wide range of harm. And this kind of harm will continue, and the secondary harm caused by it is the most terrible, if it is not handled properly, anything will happen.

"Mr. Liu, what do you want?" Will asked when he saw that Liu Xiao hadn't spoken for a long time.

"Oh......" Liu Xiao came back to his senses, shook his head, "It's nothing!", and then stood up, "If the phone or the Internet is connected in a while, please tell Mr. Qian, just say that everything is going well here!"

"Okay!" Will saw that Liu Xiao seemed to be a little tired, so he said, "Then you can rest!", after speaking, he turned around and left.

Liu Xiao was tossed all night, and he was really tired, and as soon as Will left, he washed up and went to sleep.

Just as Liu Xiao was sleeping, a new announcement was issued on the only surviving website in Estonia, Estonian zf said that the cyber attack against Estonia was launched by Russia, on the grounds that Estonian computer experts had found a source of attack, and the IP of the attack source came from an office of Russian zf! Estonia lodged a serious protest and condemnation of this!

If Liu Xiao could see this announcement at this time, he would definitely be glad that he changed his words today, otherwise this announcement would have to be changed, and the reason for Estonia's accusation of Russia would have become" A computer security expert from China's soft alliance said that the IP of the attack on the Estonian network came from Russia. At that time, Liu Xiao didn't say that he jumped into the Yellow River, he just jumped into the Baltic Sea in Estonia, and it couldn't be washed away.

Five hours later, after the computer response center and the experts from the European Union and NATO, Estonia's network was finally restored, and telecommunications and mobile communications were also restored to normal, but the damaged systems and data were still being repaired, and it was not a matter of time and a half.

Although Hillar still insisted on waiting for all the security products of the soft alliance to arrive and set up a new security system before connecting to the global Internet, the military objected, and finally the president issued an order that Estonia's network was once again connected to the global Internet.

That announcement on the Estonian website was immediately seen by the Russian ZF. Russia then also posted a ZF announcement on its website, otherwise it was related to the attack on the Estonian network, claiming that it had just learned about it now, and the Russian ZF condemned Estonia's groundless accusations and said that the Russian ZF would not assist Estonia in investigating the source of the attack.

This means that even if there is enough evidence on the part of the Estonian ZF that the attackers are hiding in Russia, the Russian ZF will not help them arrest people.

Some media with a keen sense of smell quickly discovered the incident and began to pay attention to the development of the situation, and those who acted quickly have already sent reporters to Estonia and Russia to fully understand the ins and outs of the situation; those who are slow to act are staying in front of the computer, refreshing back and forth the public websites of the two sides, waiting for new news to appear.

Half an hour after the Russian ZF announcement was issued, those reporters who were refreshing the webpage in front of the computer suddenly found that the Russian ZF publicity website suddenly could not be opened. This state of affairs lasted for almost an hour, and when the website was accessible again, the media found out that the Russian ZF had issued a new announcement.

Russia said that its ZF website was attacked by a malicious data flood in the past hour, which made it difficult to access the website, but because the Russian side has deployed an advanced security protection system, coupled with a perfect multi-channel data backup system, the website finally successfully resisted the other party's attack, and did not paralyze, and the other party's attack has been under the control of Russia. However, Russia also said that judging by the characteristics of the attack, the attack came from Estonia.

The two sides of the accusation completely fell one by one, which made all the media stunned for a while, and everyone quickly realized that this is super big news, a major event on the planet, it is not simply a hacker attack, and now it has risen to the dispute between the two countries, if it continues to develop, it may become a conflict between two interest groups. The media, which had not yet sent reporters, immediately rushed out, activated all the cameras, and began to broadcast the incident to everyone on the planet.

Has anyone ever seen two countries use the Internet to fight and start live PK directly? Not long after the Russian ZF announcement was issued, the data torrent hit the Estonian network again, and the Estonian Computer Response Center, which was on standby, did not let the tragedy repeat, and they always controlled the opponent's attack energy within the range that their side could bear.

But this is not a long-term solution, the Estonian network has always been running under a high load, the quality of access has dropped to a record low, the whole Estonian people are going crazy, the network is intermittent, it is simply a test of people's patience, some people are so quick that they are estimated to be about to smash the computer.

Among all the websites in Estonia, only the website with the soft alliance firewall is installed, because the intelligent detection function of the attack source is activated, under the powerful data torrent attack, the normal access speed has always been maintained, it is estimated that this also makes those who launched the attack unable to figure it out, the entire network of Estonia is almost unbearable, is this website is stimulant, and a steady stream of garbage data is transmitted to the past, just like a stream flowing into the sea, not even a trace of waves can be turned.

Liu Xiao had just gotten up from the bed at this time, because Will came over again, he told Liu Xiao about the development of the matter, and then said: "I contacted Mr. Qian just now, and he said that you can rest assured that all the arrangements have been made in accordance with the discussions in advance!"

Liu Xiao scratched his head, he never thought that things would develop to this point, this time it seemed that Estonia was a little unrelenting, and he didn't want to suffer a dumb loss anymore, "Things are a little bad!", Liu Xiao groaned.

Will's phone rang again at this time, he picked up the phone, "Mmmmmmmm

Liu Xiao didn't understand the meaning of this news for a while, so he asked: "What nature?", Liu Xiao was very puzzled, NATO is a military bloc, this doesn't seem to matter!

"Estonia demands that cyber attacks against a country be included in the scope of military acts, so that in the event of a similar incident, the agreement of NATO member states to carry out collective defense militarily can quickly take effect, and NATO can retaliate against those who launched the attack, and even impose sanctions!" Will explained to Liu Xiao two sentences.

Liu Xiao understood, but his eyes suddenly widened, just kidding, military behavior? Could it be said that Estonia has been engaged in a cyber war with Russia that lasted for a day and a night, aggression and counter-aggression?

"So, where I am now, is a battlefield full of wars?" Liu Xiao still couldn't turn around, and he arrived at the battlefield inexplicably, how could this be possible.