Chapter 181 Mergers and Acquisitions

“…… After gaining the trust of the other party, the attacker can forge data and exchange data with others...... Using this method, he can bypass the identity authentication of both parties and directly open a channel in the other person's personal space, and even if the connection between the other party and him is closed after that, he can access it illegally...... And, theoretically, using someone else's personal space as a springboard can also achieve the purpose of deceiving the official server. ”

In the technical department, Doyle demonstrated to Han Feng and other company technicians on the spot the loophole he found about "illegal access to residents' personal space", and considering everyone's language barrier, he used English this time.

As soon as Doyle mentioned the words, Han Feng understood the key to this loophole, and he even thought clearly about how to fill this loophole, but he did not interrupt Doyle's demonstration, after all, this is a good opportunity for Doyle to establish his position in the company and be accepted by everyone.

Doyle's ability, Han Feng is very satisfied, and his technology in network security should only be slightly weaker than himself, so he decided to let him be the head of the information security department, and this time let him explain the vulnerability he found, which is to give him the opportunity to establish his prestige.

Han Feng praised: "Doyle, you did a good job! I made a great contribution to the company just after I came in!"

Others agreed: "yes, if someone else uses this to carry out malicious hacking, it will definitely have a big impact on our company's reputation." ”

Han Feng touched his chin and thought: "It seems that this vulnerability only exists in Microsoft's Windows operating system, and it is still an old version, in the latest version, they have improved this communication protocol." ”

Because the six degrees of network is facing users all over the world,So the client version given is also very much,Basically, those mainstream operating systems on the market have corresponding client versions,And,For Microsoft's Windows operating system,Because the latest generation version and the previous old version of the system architecture have changed very much,Many things have changed substantially,So several different versions of the client are also given。

The vulnerability pointed out by Doyle only exists in the old version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, and it can't be regarded as a vulnerability of the six-degree space client, but a vulnerability of the operating system. In this case, most of the technical personnel are young people, and they are only proficient in the more popular technologies now, and they often don't spend much time studying the previous things, and the same is true when compiling the client, and the attitude is not so rigorous.

Listening to Han Feng's words, Doyle glanced at him in surprise, then nodded: "Yes, you are right, this vulnerability is not universal, so there should be relatively few people who can find this vulnerability in a short period of time, but our company has published the source code of some clients, and I believe that this vulnerability will soon circulate in the industry." ”

When he speaks of "industry", he naturally refers to the hacker world.

"Ok!" Han Feng clapped his hands, "Everyone hurry up, before the other masters can react, hurry up and fix this vulnerability!" Well, since Doyle first discovered this vulnerability, the newly established team, he will take the lead, everyone listen to his opinions, he is an expert in network security!"

When a problem is encountered, a special team of technicians on standby is immediately formed to solve it, and when the task is completed, the team is disbanded and the employees are put back on standby, which is the corporate culture that the network technology department has gradually cultivated.

Within the company, there is a set of special employee evaluation standards, each time you participate in a project development, according to the role and difficulty played by employees, you can finally get a certain contribution value, the more projects you participate in, the more contribution value, and the contribution value is an important criterion for performance appraisal. For example, if you want to learn a certain technology, then you can use the contribution value to other colleagues who are proficient in this technology to "buy", and use the contribution value as tuition and ask him to be a teacher to tutor you personally. There is a reward for paying, this is a concept that Han Feng has always emphasized, using his own labor in exchange for contribution value, within the company, this is a normal behavior, no one will think that this will hurt and angry. Of course, often the contribution value is used as tuition, which basically occurs when the two colleagues are not very familiar with the situation, and sometimes at the end, the relationship between the two is familiar, and the contribution value does not need to be mentioned.

As the six-dimensional space becomes larger and more complex, it is natural to face more and more problems.

After the full opening of registration, there are more people entering the sixth degree, so the probability of finding various bugs has also increased a lot, and the customer service receives hundreds of suggestions or possible vulnerability information every day. The Six Degrees Network Customer Service Building in the Six Degrees Space is often overcrowded, although everyone can send system messages directly to the Six Degrees Network in their own personal space, but they still prefer to come to tell their situation in person, anyway, coming here is just a transmission, and it doesn't take much time.

The customer service staff will classify the issues they mentioned, and then the testers will reproduce them based on the description of the problems to confirm whether they are real bugs, and only after confirming them will they finally submit them to their colleagues in the technical department for them to solve.

However, with the exception of the one that Doyle found that could use illegal identity authentication to invade someone's private space, some of the other vulnerabilities were very small bugs, and could even be solved by a simple change in the source code by a programmer.

After finishing Doyle's affairs, Han Feng met with the representative of Blizzard Entertainment in the afternoon, Ruobo Pardo, the vice president of Blizzard, a typical IT elite in his forties.

Han Feng smiled and said in English, "Mr. Pardo, I'm really sorry to keep you waiting. ”

"Chinese style, we didn't have an appointment before, and we came here rashly, disturbing your normal schedule, saying sorry that it should be us. Ruobo instead uses Chinese.

After Han Feng heard this, he was slightly stunned, not because the Chinese spoken by the other party was relatively standard, but because of his title. Chinese style, that's what the Western media call him.

"In addition, the beautiful Nancy showed us around your company, and I personally feel that time flies a little fast. It's amazing how your company has formed its own unique corporate culture, it's hard to believe that it's a new company that has just been established for a short time!"

Han Feng glanced at Yang Xiwen with appreciative eyes, and then turned to the main topic and said: "Mr. Pardo, Blizzard has always been famous for producing high-quality games, and many employees of your company's "StarCraft", "Diablo" and "Warcraft" including me like it very much......" Han Feng first briefly said the glory of Blizzard, patted Ruobo's ass slightly, and then continued, "I feel very honored to be able to cooperate with you six times!" I don't know what your specific plan is, put it forward, and everyone will refer to it together?"

Although Ruobo has been accustomed to hearing other people's praise, but now that he hears it from the mouth of President Liudu again, he still feels very cool and crooked. After hearing Han Feng's last words, he pondered for a while, and then said: "Six Degrees Space is a very creative product, realizing the wonderful virtual space conceived by the science fiction master Stephen King in his work "Snow Crash...... What I want to say is that our company is very interested in your company and wants to acquire all the shares of your company as a wholly owned company, I don't know what you think?"

"Wholly-owned acquisition?!" Yang Xiwen was so surprised that she almost didn't even hold the documents in her hand, she always thought that Blizzard was only here to talk about cooperation, and the scope was only limited to the game field, but she didn't expect them to come to talk about acquisitions.

Han Feng was obviously a little surprised, he didn't expect the other party's appetite to be so big, he replied without any hesitation: "Liudu will definitely not sell, but I'm curious, what is the valuation you gave to my company?"

"$450 million!" Ruobo kept staring at Han Feng when he was quoting, but unfortunately, he didn't see any information expressing joy on his face, and even his pupils didn't change.

"450 million, US dollars, thank you for your company's evaluation of us, I didn't expect that as soon as the registration was opened, our market value has increased several times, hehe!"

Ruobo saw that Han Feng was indifferent, so he said: "Chinese style, please don't exclude mergers and acquisitions and integration, sometimes this is an inevitable stage of the company's development." You know, our previous studio was eventually acquired by the parent company of Vivendi, and what you see, we basically didn't have any impact, on the contrary, we got bigger and bigger!"

Han Feng still shook his head: "What we ask for is different. ”