A few minutes later, FSK replied that the soft alliance was not ready to send experts for two reasons: first, the current assembly volume of a certain country is too small to meet the standard of door-to-door service; second, it has not yet set up an office in a certain country, and it takes too much time to rush over the road, and far water cannot save the fire. However, the experts of the soft alliance also gave a solution, that is, wait quietly, as long as the firewall is no longer attacked within 30 minutes in a row, this lock state can be lifted, this is the default setting, and after the lock state is lifted, users can set the length of the lock time according to their own needs.

This made the stars, who were anxiously waiting for the news, finally feel a little relieved and restarted the discussion.

The person in charge was embarrassed and knocked on the table, "Let's talk about it, what do you think about this?"

"I felt that SoftAlliance's policy-level firewall had serious security risks and was not suitable for installation in our critical network, so I suggested that this incident be used as an excuse to request a return from FSK!

"For the sake of security, we also feel that we should reconsider whether to install more policy-level firewalls on our critical networks!"

The person in charge nodded and said: "Although in the prior inspection, we did not find that this product has a backdoor and potential safety hazards, but this incident does expose that the product still has safety problems in some aspects, since everyone is this opinion, then ......."

"I'm sorry to interrupt, General!" the two before stood up, "I don't agree with everyone!"

The person in charge looked pale, "What do you think, tell me!"

"I think that SoftAlliance's products are not only not security problems, but are very safe, and today's incident just proves this!" The two stars raised a finger, "First, the main reason for the current situation is that our engineering staff did not carefully study the setting rules of the policy-level firewall, and we can set this lock state to less than one minute!" Second, the founder of the policy-level firewall is Liu Xiao, who is the most familiar with the weaknesses of this set of products in the world, but now he has no way to use this firewall with his own attack tools, which is enough to show that the products are designed according to the highest security standards. Besides, Liu Xiao's design of this tool itself can be explained, maybe he is just to test the safety of his own products, the purpose is to further improve the safety of products!"

The words of the two stars are not completely unreasonable, and most of them began to bow slightly, because everyone had seen it with their own eyes just now, although Liu Xiao's own attack tool pierced the firewall, but he didn't get anything.

"Contrary to your opinion, I think we should assemble this firewall in large quantities, as long as we are familiar with every setting rule of the firewall, there will be no accident like today!" The two stars glanced at everyone, "The security of policy-level firewalls, we have repeatedly verified them on the key networks of Estonia and Russia, so far, we have no way to deal with it!"

Everyone is talking, this is true, the intelligence department has long sent multiple batches of digital attack troops to attack the key networks of Estonia and Russia, these are the top hackers in the country, but until now, no effective method has been come up, which is also the main reason for the decision to purchase soft alliance products.

The person in charge saw that everyone's opinions were disputed, frowned and thought about it, and said: "Since there is a dispute on this issue, I think so, give those tools to our digital attack force, let them test the key networks of other countries, see if there is a situation like ours, and then we will make a decision based on the results!"

The two stars wanted to say something, but seeing that everyone nodded, they had to sit down in a sullen voice, anyway, to see the situation!

"Langdon!" the person in charge looked at the two stars, "You go and monitor our critical network, and once the lock is lifted, arrange for someone to reset the firewall immediately!"

"Yes!" Langdon stood up to accept the order, he was very depressed, presumably because the person in charge saw that he disagreed and wanted to break himself up.

"Richard!" the person in charge looked at the star who was in charge of selecting the IP address just now, "You immediately call in the digital attack force and strive to complete the test in the shortest possible time!"

"Yes!" Richard was a little happy, it seemed that the person in charge did not intend to investigate his mistake in choosing the IP address just now, this was obviously to give himself a chance to atone for his crimes, "Don't worry, I will do a good job!"

"Okay!

Langdon left the conference room and went to the intelligence processing hall and gave the order, "Let the departments with the locked reporting system just now report to us at any time on the status of the firewall." Also, let their engineers read the product manual to me, and even someone else will have to teach me the basic settings!", Langdon was very angry.

"Report to General Langdon!" an intelligence officer looked at Langdon with a strange expression, "Our network system is also locked, and we can't contact those departments!"

"Then call and inform!" Langdon glared at the informant, "Won't you work without the computer?"

"Yes!" The intelligence officer hurriedly picked up the phone at hand and began to check the phone numbers of those departments on the computer, but unfortunately after knocking a few times, the system did not give an answer, but only prompted, "The network is in great danger, and the provision of information services is currently suspended!"

The intelligence officer scratched his head, stood up and went to the information department, what kind of *** broken system is this, a firewall locked it up, it seems that he can only find the phone numbers of those departments from the long phone book, and it is estimated that when he finds it, the damn system will be automatically restored.

Richard over there was ambitious at this time, and he took a few of Liu Xiao's tools, and he went to the Cyber Operations Section of the Ministry of Defense next door.

As soon as they heard Richard's introduction, they became interested at that time, but they had been studying the networks of Estonia and Russia for a long time, and they didn't tear them open at all, and they were worried, the tool that Richard brought was a little bright star in the dark sky, even if it was a small light, it was a light anyway.

"We've done tests before, and these tools can indeed pierce policy-level firewalls, but after entering, they don't get permissions, and instead lock up the firewall!" Richard quickly explained to those people, "The purpose of this test is to see if the firewalls of other countries can cause the same situation when they are attacked by this tool." ”

"So you sounded the network alarm just now?" The person in charge of the Cyber Operations Section is a major general, with the same rank as Richard, who may be more familiar with him in normal times, so he can also speak openly, "We almost thought it was a sneak attack by the enemy, oh, look at it!", the major general took his chin and pointed to the lobby of the Operations Section outside, "I will urgently recall the people on leave!"

"Don't say it, let's do it, there's still a reply waiting for me!" Richard waved his hand and smiled.

The Major General took the USB flash drive from Richard's hand, and then shouted, "Someone!"

"General!" a signal soldier appeared at the door.

"Arrange it immediately, use the tools on this plate to attack the tactical-level firewall!" the major general looked at the signal soldiers, "Remember, let them pick the hardest bones to gnaw!"

"Yes, General!" the signal man took the USB stick and ran out.

Through the floor-to-ceiling glass of this small office, Richard saw that the cyber operations hall outside was starting to get busy, and only a few minutes later, the signal corpsman returned, holding the report in his hand, "General, this is the result!"

The major general took it and frowned, "Richard, you're not joking with me, are you?"

"What's the matter? I'll see!" Richard took the report from the major general's hand, and at first glance he was puzzled, the report showed that those tools were useless, and that there was no sign of piercing the firewall.

"Richard, is it really your intelligence department that has made up the situation of those networks today?", the major general was a little skeptical at this time, if these useless tools can also make a mess of the country's key departments, then what do you want these network combat elites to do.

"It's strange, it was obviously pierced through the firewall on our side just now, I saw it with my own eyes!" Richard couldn't figure out the mystery in this, "Strange thing, why can't you use it here, is it because your people have made a mistake and didn't follow my instructions!"

"Follow me!" After the major general finished speaking, he personally went out to the battle hall.

"General!" the team members in charge of the operation just now stood up.

"Did you follow the instructions on the USB stick?" asked the major general.

"Yes!" replied one of the team members, "the operation is not complicated, one is an automatic attack tool, the other is a code that needs to be typed, we checked the code three times, and there are absolutely no errors!"

"Do it again!" ordered the Major General, who immediately looked back at Richard, "See for yourself, and if there is anything different from yours, point it out immediately!"

Several combat team members were helpless, and repeated the action just now, Richard looked at it carefully, and it was exactly the same as the action just now in the intelligence department, and he couldn't see anything wrong.

"Look, General!" the fighter pointed to the screen, "It doesn't work!"

Richard looked forward, he could still see the word failure on the screen, he locked his eyebrows, and said: "It's strange, what's going on, it was obviously successful just now, could it be that this policy-level firewall was upgraded so quickly?

The major general is also puzzled, it is said that Richard will not tell nonsense, besides, the network of those departments is indeed in trouble, but what is going on with this tool, how can it be useful for a while, and useless for a while. In this meeting, it is impossible for the soft alliance to update tens of thousands of sets of products at the same time, but how to explain this!

Langdon over there was even more depressed, he just received a phone call, saying that the firewall had been unlocked, and he didn't have time to let people change the settings, the call came again, saying that the firewall had been attacked again, and the system was locked again, and it would take another half an hour to recover!

"Damn!" Langdon was so angry, what a fucking evil sect, why did this attack point be so accurate, and it was half an hour and half an hour, "Check it out immediately and see who is attacking our firewall!", Langdon shouted at the signal soldiers.

As soon as Langdon's words fell, Richard came back dejected and said, "Don't check, I know who is attacking!"

Langdon took two steps closer to Richard, "Who is it?"

"It's still us!" Richard pulled a face, "I was ordered by the general to take those tools to the Cyber Operations Section, and they took the tools to test, and the results didn't work at all......"

"Nothing at all?" Langdon glared at Richard, "It doesn't work at all, why is our network locked up again!"

"Wait until I'm done!" Richard knew that he was wrong, and his voice was much lower, "Later, the people in the Cyber Operations Section found out that those tools have remembered the IP address of the last attack, and after they run, they will automatically attack those addresses, and if we attack other addresses, it will have no effect at all!"

Langdon was so angry that he paced in place for two laps, then walked towards the office of the person in charge, "Don't say anything, follow me to see the general!"

After listening to Richard's words, the person in charge also stood up in surprise, "Automatically attack our network?

"It's the tool's design, we didn't notice it at the time!" Richard said.

"I don't think it's that simple!" Langdon said.

"Langdon, say whatever you want!" the person in charge looked at Langdon.

"I think we might be being taken advantage of!" Langdon looked at the person in charge, "it's clear that this is a planned attack on our critical network, and the other party is taking advantage of a flaw in our firewall defaults." ”

"A planned attack?" the person in charge frowned, a little puzzled, "You go on!"

"In my opinion, it should have been done by the Soft Alliance!" Langdon said his conclusion.

"Soft Alliance?" Richard objected first, "this is their product, and they will attack their own product?"

"What's impossible, we still kidnap the head of the Soft Alliance!" Langdon looked back at Richard, "Who is Liu Xiao? He is a person who will take revenge, have you forgotten what happened to FSK? Those companies are all rich and rival the country, and after fighting with a small soft alliance for so long, what is the final result? It's not that people have kidnapped them, and now they will be desperate to help the soft alliance sell strategic products! If the soft alliance dares to attack those companies, why won't it attack us?"

Judging by Liu Xiao's temperament, if he knew the person behind the kidnapping of him, he would definitely retaliate, and if he didn't retaliate, he wouldn't be called Liu Xiao. The person in charge picked up the cigar on the table, took two puffs, put it down again, and said, "This is just a guess, do you have a way to confirm it?"

"Since the product is the soft alliance's, I think the soft alliance definitely doesn't want to make a big fuss, and wants to confirm whether they did it, in fact, it's very simple, as long as they throw out some benefits, if they see a good thing, they will accept it, then they must have done it. Langdon said.

"But what if no one takes the benefits thrown out?" the person in charge asked, "I have been in charge of the Ministry of Intelligence for more than 20 years, and I have never encountered such a situation, this is simply calling at us and our country, this Liu Xiao is really too arrogant!" The temper of the person in charge has been cultivated very restrained over the years, and at this time he can't help but feel a little angry, "You immediately take a plan and throw out the benefits, I want to see if he Liu Xiao dares to eat it!"

"Yes!" Langdon straightened, "I'll do it!"

"Report!", the office of the person in charge was pushed open, and a signal soldier entered, "General Langdon, there is a new situation, please go over and coordinate!"

"What's the matter?" Langdon looked at the signal soldiers, this is all chased here, is it possible that there is something big mess again!

"Something went wrong with the team of experts who decrypted the files, they downloaded a decoder from the Internet, only to be poisoned, and now the data cannot be recovered, and the virus has made all the machines in our lab inoperable!" replied the signal soldier.

Langdon "snapped" and slapped it on the desk of the person in charge, who was fine, but Richard was taken aback.

"I can guarantee it!" Langdon looked at the person in charge, "This is definitely Liu Xiao's style!"

"There is a lot of data on the machines in the laboratory that we have worked so hard to collect, and we are still waiting to analyze it!" said Richard.

"Now, it seems that I can only invite the OTE people to come over!" The person in charge thought about it and had an idea, "Doesn't OTE claim to be the captain of the universal firefight?" Then let's invite OTE, this time I want to have a good fight with this Liu Xiao, and by the way, see if the arson level of the soft alliance is high, or the firefighting technology of OTE is high!"