Chapter 162: Fifteen Minutes
Michael's attention was also to the fact that this time the intelligence officers were too general, "within 24 hours, the United States will be attacked by terrorists from the Internet," and this is what intelligence is all about, who is going to attack the United States, and what areas and departments will be attacked?
Dissatisfied with the performance of the intelligence officers, Michael ordered the intelligence officers who provided the information to confirm the information and provide more detailed information so that the authorities could be more targeted to prevent the attack.
In such a short period of time, within 24 hours, how can we prevent this attack? Moreover, it is still from the Internet, and the people who carried out this attack can come from all over the world, so does it require the United States to directly cut the network cables of the entire country because of this news? This is obviously unrealistic.
"Bang, bang, bang!" Rob banged on Will's door again.
Will said angrily: "Come in!"
"Will, I'm in big trouble this time!" Rob ran in with a sweat on his forehead.
"What's going on? Is the terrorist attack about to begin?" Will quickly asked.
"No, no!" Rob shook his head repeatedly, "On the contrary, the information this time is fake, there is no terrorist attack at all, and the information we received before is all fake. ”
"What?" said Will with a sudden, almost jumping in front of Rob. "What the hell is going on, you tell me clearly!"
Before, he ran to say that someone was about to launch a terrorist attack against the Federation, and said that the probability was more than 60 percent, but now he ran to say it. The previous information was faked. Will simply wondered if Rob wasn't at ease and wanted to pull him down from this position and replace him!
"Well, someone has taken control of our communications system and sent information from our local intelligence agents...... Because so many intelligence agents have received this information, we have come to such wrong conclusions, and now we have been in contact with those intelligence agents. As a result, they all reacted, saying that no such information had been sent......"
"Now what do you want me to do? This information has already been reported to the minister, he has done a lot of preparatory work to prevent this terrorist attack, and now you want me to tell him that this is all fake, someone is playing a joke on us, this is just a prank of some master hacker?" Will almost directly roared, and spat sprayed directly on Rob's face.
Rob also knew that this incident was his own dereliction of duty, so he faced Will's duty. He could only bear it in silence.
"Also, what are those guys doing for food? The communication system was hacked without knowing anything, and it was used by the other party to pass on false information. If it's really a terrorist attack. Aren't we ......" said here. Will suddenly stopped.
Rob also jerked his head up and blurted out, "The attack has begun!"
Even the communications system of the Federal Computer Incident Response Center was unwittingly controlled by the other side. This already shows the seriousness of the problem!
Will said: "You have the technicians check the communication system immediately, and make sure that the system is functioning properly! I will go to the minister now and report the matter!"
"The technician has checked it and found nothing. ”
"Then check again!" said Will, who hurried towards the office of Minister Michael.
"Will, why did you come here yourself, is there any information about the new land?" asked Michael in some surprise when he saw Will.
"Minister, that's ......" Will gave Michael the latest update, of course, he was speaking very skillfully, without giving Michael time to think about who was derelict in his duties before he left, and directly turned his attention to the topic of "the terrorist attack has begun".
After listening to Will's report, Michael turned blue: "What is the intent of the intruder? Is he provoking our Department of Homeland Security? Or is he sending us some information? Is this information he transmitted true or false? Will, you tell me!"
"Uh...... I'm sorry, I don't know. Will whispered unconfidently.
"You are a computer accident response center, and you are helpless in the face of hacker incursions? Will, although you are my old friend, I have to say that your performance this time is really bad!"
Minister, this is the characteristic of computer crime, it is ......"
"That's enough, I don't want to hear those excuses!" Michael interrupted Will's explanation, then picked up the phone on the desk and called the directors of the CIA and the FBI, respectively, asking for any information related to the incident, which they had asked to look up before. It turned out to be frustrating, and they didn't find any information.
At this time, Will's cell phone rang, and he saw that it was Rob calling.
Will answered, and asked, "Hey, Rob, did you make any discoveries?"
"Will, I think the terrorist attack really started, just after the news from the Department of Transportation, Miami's transit system suddenly got out of control......"
Will and Michael rushed to the Bang Computer Accident Response Center, only to see that the large LCD monitor in the center displayed real-time traffic monitoring images of the city of Miami, which were taken by cameras placed at various intersections in the city of Miami and sent directly to the city. In the picture, there are long queues of cars at various intersections, the traffic light control has been completely stationary, the traffic lights are no longer switched, and some of the anxious people have stepped out of the car to see what is going on, and some have been honking their horns and honking their horns.
Officials from the Ministry of Transportation reported the situation here via video call: "We were hacked, the traffic control was out of control, fortunately, the other party did not let the control lights switch at will, otherwise it could cause a serious crash......
Then, the screen in the monitor flashed a few times, and then the screen went black, and they could no longer see the traffic monitoring here.
Now convinced that the United States is indeed suffering from a terrorist attack from the Internet, Michael hastened to declare a Level 1 emergency for the Department of Homeland Security, and reported the situation to the Pentagon and the White House, and the Level 1 emergency mechanism is randomly operational. 、
However, at this time, some key servers and computers suddenly crashed, and the emergency mechanism that had just been running urgently collapsed in an instant!
"Oh my God!" Michael's eyes darkened when he heard the news, and he knew that his term of office was over.
Immediately afterwards, the Pentagon, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the White House and other government departments also declared a state of emergency in the first level, and abandoned the paralyzed emergency response mechanism and urgently activated the special emergency communications system to keep in touch.
"Minister, the traffic system is back to normal!" Ten minutes later, Will brought Michael good news.
"God, it's finally recovered, thank you for me Wilson, it's a miracle that he was able to get the transportation system back in such a short time!"
Will said a little unbalancedly: "He didn't do anything, the traffic system was automatically restored, as if the other party had given up control of the traffic system." ”
The entire traffic control system stopped running for fifteen minutes, and after fifteen minutes, it automatically resumed operation, because the traffic lights at each intersection just stopped flashing, as if time suddenly stopped for fifteen minutes, although everyone waited anxiously, but there was no traffic accident, at most the entire city of Miami collectively had a traffic jam for fifteen minutes.
Immediately afterward, Michael received information from various departments that no other terrorist attacks had been detected, and the attackers seemed to have suddenly retreated, stopping the Miami traffic system for fifteen minutes, and then completely paralyzing the emergency mechanism system, and other than that, nothing else was done.
Soon, the collapsed systems were gradually restored, and then a special computer security team was sent to thoroughly investigate the cause of the computer crashes, and the members of this team were super computer security experts, many of whom were civilian hackers recruited by the U.S. government and were very experienced in hacking into the system.
Their efforts were not in vain, and in the end all the clues were concentrated on a computer in Switzerland, and in this computer with a very good configuration, they found an encrypted file, which was encrypted with a commonly used encryption software, so the NSA technicians easily cracked the file.
After decryption, there is only one image with a blood-red eye drawn on it, and a small line underneath it - "Eyes=.d"