Chapter 244: The number one fraudster in history
Langdon is still a little reluctant after all, although the person in charge has expressed his disapproval, he still decided to secretly arrange someone to contact Warwick, and he can make Warwick turn his back on the alliance with the Soft Alliance without spending money, which is of course the best result. Several days passed, and there was no feedback at all, so Langdon simply put this matter aside, and he could only do his best and obey the fate of God.
On this day, Webb came to the Intelligence Department to brief Langdon on the situation, coordinate the matter, and appeared very happy when he entered the door.
"What's new on Bobby's side?" Langdon asked.
"The patches provided by Mr. Bobby, after being inspected and correct, have been installed on the servers of all key networks in China under the unified arrangement of the Ministry of Cyber Security, and the effect is obvious, and the success rate of hacker attacks has suddenly dropped by 50%. Webb was very pleased with the number.
"Not bad!" Langdon smiled, it seemed that this Bobby was really a little good, "Did Mr. Bobby mention the next plan?"
Weber was a little surprised, "I came to you just to talk about this, isn't all of Mr. Webb's work coordinated by your intelligence department? I'm just asking General Langdon, what is Mr. Bobby going to do next, what do we need our cyber security department to cooperate with, we have to prepare in advance!"
Langdon was also surprised, this Bobby hadn't shown up for two or three days, and after leaving the patch last time, he said that he was going to make a plan, and according to his efficiency, it would have already come to fruition, if Webb hadn't come now, he would have thought he would have taken action in the Cyber Security Department. "He hasn't been to Cybersecurity in the past two days?", Langdon confirmed.
"No!" Webber shook his head, "I thought he was discussing his next plan with General Langdon!"
Langdon immediately picked up the phone, pressed Bobby's phone, the ringtone rang twice, and Bobby picked up the phone, "Hello, I'm Bobby!"
"Mr. Bobby, I'm Landon!" After Langdon reported his home, he hurriedly said, "Where is Mr. Bobby now?"
"I'm at the hotel!" Bobby was surprised, "what, is there something wrong?"
"Colonel Webb from the Cyber Security Department is here, and I want to ask if your next plan has been made, and what do you need to do if you don't cooperate with cyber security, so he needs to prepare in advance!" Langdon said.
"The plan is mostly complete!" Bobby laughs, "it's actually very simple, it is still necessary to further strengthen the security soft power of the network." I analyzed and summarized all the existing hacking methods, and used these two days to design a set of general security patches, and now it is still a little bit to complete, as long as this set of patches is installed, I think it should be able to prevent the vast majority of the current hacker attack methods, and then cooperate with the three internal and external three systems, should be able to achieve a good security effect!"
When Langdon heard this, he smiled and said, "Then I won't bother Mr. Bobby, if you see anything that needs our cooperation, just ask!"
"Nothing!" Bobby paused, "I'll have this universal patch done by tomorrow afternoon at the latest, and I'll deliver it to your office in person during that time, and I don't want to be disturbed during this time!"
"Okay, I see!" Langdon laughed, "then it's up to Mr. Bobby!"
Hanging up the phone, Webb hurriedly asked, "What did Mr. Bobby say?"
"He's working on a patch that will block most of the hacking methods, and he doesn't want to be disturbed!" Langdon said.
"I really underestimated Mr. Bobby before!" Webb sighed and changed his expectation, "Our security level is really much worse than Mr. Bobby's, I hope that this time we can completely survive the cyber security crisis with Mr. Bobby's assistance!" ”
Langdon smiled, why shouldn't he be, he used to be very optimistic about Bobby, but now he can only pin all his hopes on Bobby, because there is no one to help Country F.
After sending Webb away, Langdon was called by the person in charge, "General, are you looking for me?"
The person in charge nodded and put a document on the table, "I just got the news that the procurement team sent by the Ministry of Defense has verified the situation of the equipment supplier, and with the consent of the Ministry of Defense, they have placed a purchase order with the other party!"
Langdon didn't feel surprised, but he was a little surprised by the speed of the Ministry of Defense this time, he picked up the documents on the table, read them again, and then was a little surprised, "Why has the budget increased again? The previous budget for the hardware part was 5.2 billion, but now why has it suddenly increased to 7 billion?"
The person in charge shook his head, "The specific figure is negotiated between the procurement team and the equipment supplier, and we have no right to ask!"
"The Department of Defense places an order of 7 billion at a time, and according to the usual practice, it needs to pay 30% to the other party at one time, that is, a deposit of 2.1 billion US dollars!" Langdon smacked his tongue, "The Department of Defense has never been so generous before!"
The person in charge shook his head and smiled, "It may be that the impact of this network security crisis is too great, and their pressure is also relatively large, no matter what, as long as we quickly pull the equipment back and establish this outer three system first, our pressure can be reduced a lot!"
Langdon frowned, put the file back on the desk of the person in charge, and stood there pondering.
"What are you thinking? Langdon!" the person in charge asked.
Langdon shook his head, and then smiled: "It's nothing, according to past experience, such a large amount of expenditure, you have to toss back and forth for a long time before you can make a decision, this time the Ministry of Defense is so painful, it makes me a little uncomfortable!"
"It seems that we will have to learn from the Ministry of Defense in the future, it is our indecision that we have missed a lot of opportunities before!" sighed the person in charge.
"Yes!" Langdon nodded, "I'll learn my lesson!"
The training of the new employees of the soft alliance finally ended, because of the participation of the municipal network administrator, so when the training officially ended, the mayor also came to congratulate him in person and made a big call, which means that such exchange activities should be vigorously promoted and more in the future.
Liu Xiao was also pushed to the front desk by the employees and asked him to say a few words to the new employees. Liu Xiao didn't prepare in advance, just like during the Lei Cheng Summit, he stood on the stage stupidly for a long time before he said: "The good ones have been said by others, if you have to say a few words, then I'll say a few ugly words!"
Liu Xiao looked at these newly joined employees, "I know that there will be many people around you who envy you, envy that you can enter the soft alliance, get the highest salary in the domestic industry, and get a good development platform, maybe many of you are glad that you can get this job, but I want to say that you may lose this job at any time, you will roll up from this building and leave, and even the soft alliance may close down at any time!"
Liu Xiao's abrupt words suddenly cooled down the atmosphere at the scene, "During the training, everyone may have learned about the history of the soft alliance, including the glorious and dishonorable, as well as the company's ups and downs in the past six months. Liu Xiao raised his hand and pointed to the outside of the building, "Through the window, everyone can see the construction site not far away, and in a year, a building belonging to the soft alliance will be erected there, and the office environment inside will be the best in China and even the best in the world." Everyone, including myself, is looking forward to being able to move into that building of their own one day as soon as possible, but will you ever think that at this moment and now, how many people in the world are racking their brains to defeat the Soft Alliance? Everyone who has personally experienced the rise of the Soft Alliance knows how difficult it is to do all this today, and it is no exaggeration to say that every brick laid in the new building requires us to make a thousand times more effort! What should we do in the face of a deadly attack that our opponents may launch at any time? Liu Xiao raised three fingers, "Unite as one! Make fewer mistakes! Do more!"
"The sage Mencius said, 'Born in sorrow, die in peace!', Ouyang Xiu also said, "Sorrow can rejuvenate the country, Yiyu can die", the soft alliance provides you with the best development platform in China, is to allow you to give full play to your talents, the ambition in your heart into real productivity, not to mention that now the new building has not even laid the foundation, we are far from the time to breathe a sigh of relief. Those who think that everything will be fine if they enter the soft alliance and are ready to live here will be the first to be asked to leave here. Liu Xiao paused, "Tomorrow, the relevant incentive system for new employees and new businesses of the soft alliance will be sent to you, and the soft alliance will also provide a better environment for everyone, we will be people on the same boat in the future, whether the ship of the soft alliance can continue to ride the wind and waves, sail thousands of miles, whether the building outside the window can be built, whether we can move in smoothly after a year, it depends on all of you here." ”
The next afternoon, Webb waited early in Langdon's office, and he wanted to get the patch Bobby said as soon as possible, and then arrange his work.
But he had been waiting for the end of work all the time, and Bobby still didn't show up, so Webb couldn't sit still, "General Langdon, do you want to call Mr. Bobby to ask about the situation, what time is it?"
Langdon put down the document he was dealing with, looked at the time, and frowned, Bobby said yesterday that it could be completed this afternoon at the latest, and even if it couldn't be completed, he should call to inform him. Langdon then picked up the phone and dialed Bobby's number, and soon a voice came from the phone, "I'm sorry, the user you are calling has been turned off!"
"Huh?" Langdon was a little surprised, and in order to make sure he hadn't dialed the wrong number, he dialed the number again, and it turned out that it was still the prompt tone, and the user turned off!
"Didn't get through?" Webb asked Langdon, "or no one answered?"
"It's off!" Langdon put down the phone, thought about it for a while, and felt that something was wrong, so he quickly picked up the phone again and dialed the phone number of Bobby's hotel directly, "Help me check if Mr. McKinnon, who lives in room 1802, is Mr. McKinnon in the room now?"
"Wait a minute!" After waiting for about ten seconds, there was a reply on the other side of the phone, "Hello sir, Mr. Bobby went out to run errands in the morning, and is not in the room now, if you have something to find Mr. Bobby, please leave a message, we will ......"
"Smack!" Langdon hung up the phone and stood up, "Things are a little bad!"
"Huh?" Webb didn't understand what Langdon meant, and looked at him with a confused expression.
Langdon pinched his chin and paced around the room twice, then quickly returned to his desk and picked up the middle phone, "I'm General Langdon, check it for me immediately, and summarize all the news related to Bobby McKinnon today!"
"What's wrong?" asked Webb, who was more and more confused.
Langdon didn't speak, just thought about it, he had to keep himself calm now, Bobby McKinnon had gone out in the morning, but he hadn't been to the Intelligence Department yet, so where could he go, Langdon didn't dare to tell Webb the worst.
A minute later, the phone on Langdon's desk rang, and he grabbed it as soon as he heard it say: "Report to General Langdon, according to the records, Mr. Bobby McKinnon has left Country F by plane this morning, and the flight is destined for England!"
No matter how calm Langdon was, he realized what was happening, threw away the phone, and went straight to the office of the person in charge.
Webber was still confused at this time, not knowing what was going on, he chased after Langdon, trying to enter the office of the head of the intelligence department to find out, but was stopped by the guards at the door, this is not a place where anyone can enter, unless authorized by the owner of the office.
"Fraud!" the person in charge reflexively bounced out of his chair when he heard these two words from Langdon's mouth, "Say it again!"
"Bobby McKinnon has left our borders and is heading for England without prior notice to any of us. I would suggest that the Ministry of Defence be notified immediately and suspend the payment of deposits to companies in the UK, as this is likely to be a scam!" Langdon said.
The person in charge collapsed in his chair and said, "It's late, yesterday afternoon, the Ministry of Defense had already remitted the deposit to the other party!"
Langdon suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, and he was a little relieved, and said: "It's not too late, we can immediately send a note to Britain through diplomatic means, let them temporarily control Bobby McKinnon, and investigate the reason why Bobby McKinnon left the country without permission!"
Two minutes later, the phone was connected, and the person in charge briefed the matter and asked the ambassador to immediately send a note to Britain to rein in Bobby McKinnon and investigate the reason for his departure.
After the phone call, the person in charge sat in his chair, and he couldn't figure out why things had taken such a sudden turn, and if this was really a fraud, then Bobby McKinnon could be regarded as the number one fraudster in history, and he took $2.1 billion from a country's Ministry of Defense in a grand manner. "How can this be!", the person in charge seemed to be asking Langdon, and as if he was talking to himself, he couldn't understand how someone could fool the two major departments of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Intelligence.
Langdon didn't speak, he was waiting for news from the British side, and he was only guessing that if it really came true, the consequences would be very serious, which was not what Langdon was willing to do.
Half an hour later, the ambassador of the consulate of country F in Britain called directly back to the intelligence department, and he only said two things: first, Britain did not have a person named Bobby McKinnon entering the country today; second, Gary McKinnon did not have a brother at all, and Britain had never hired a person named Bobby McKinnon as an adviser on national cybersecurity.
"This is impossible!" Langdon suddenly became furious, "The plane flying to Britain did not land in the middle, can it be that Bobby McKinnon can still evaporate? We have obtained a lot of information about Bobby McKinnon from Britain before, and each material has the seal of the British intelligence department and the archives department, is this all fake?"
The person in charge was not as excited as Langdon, he had basically accepted this reality now, and sighed, "Let's inform the Ministry of Defense and let them think of a way!"
Langdon slammed his fist on the table and said, "Let the Ministry of Defense immediately send a note to the UK, no matter what, we must control that equipment supplier first, if we let him run away, we will really be finished!"
The person in charge called the Ministry of Defense and told them the news that the Ministry of Defense might never be able to accept.
When Liu Xiao got up in the morning, he felt that his spirit was very good, about the future development direction of the company, he suddenly had some ideas, today is the company's regular meeting, he is ready to discuss it with the company's elders.