"Lois Gresh - Termination Node" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gresh Lois)

In the middle of the night, someone was wiping millions of dollars from Hirama's accounts. Penetration: a
hacker. Judy grasped the back of Jose's chair. She was too close to the Dracula green-streaked head,
too close to the new-plastic reek of Etch-o-Oil.

Jose massaged his right fingers with his left hand. His pupils were wider than Metha-normal, his forehead
creased, his mouth trembling. "Fingers, can't move 'em."

Judy crouched beneath the blinking red Ethernet lights, the multicolored spaghetti wires dripping off the
punchdowns. Her chin brushed against the Etch-o-hair. It was stiff, like scouring pad bristles. Mercifully,
he rolled his chair to the side to give her space.

She closed the Hirama file, then accessed it again to see if the changes remained.

The accounts no longer had zero balances.

She had to be losing her grip. It was late; she was tired. Try again. She redisplayed the Internet
transaction log, This time, it showed a huge transaction that had deleted several million dollars in Hirama
funds.

A freaking break-in hacker at play in the black void of the Internet.

"A superhacker" she whispered.

Hot damn.

She hardly felt her legs move as she returned to the first computer, on the other side of the room. She
was only faintly conscious of her socks padding across the tiles. Faintly conscious of the screen saver
fractals. She touched the screen, kind of like touching God or something. Her whole body was numb.
Brain in high gear. Ice-cold focus.

On the Laguna Savings Internet transaction page, real-time, right here and now, some freakzoid was
deleting Hirama funds, then replac-

ing them. What if this was no kid, out for a computer joyride? Breaking through a bank's firewalls was a
federal offense and came with a mandatory jail sentence.

"Do a trace." Jose was behind her now, his breath hot on her neck. She hadn't even heard him cross the
room.

She squinted and started typing.

powerman>finger -g

A short list of all system users scrolled down the screen. It showed no intruders.

powerman>netstat -a

A quick status check of all system sockets, every low-level software device feeding into the system.
Nothing. "Do it again," Jose said.