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

powerman>netstat -a

This time, the screen showed an established Internet connection coming from a foreign address called
Helraze.

"I'd better call Naresh." Jose sounded scared. Naresh was his boss. Jose never called Naresh, who was
a grade fifteen in the bank hierarchy. A grade fifteen who lived in a swanky house and reigned from a
swanky cubicle on management row.

She'd spare Jose the agony, She'd handle Helraze herself. "Naresh lives fifteen minutes away. He can't
get here in time."

"Yeah, guess you're right. Jesus, how the hell will I explain this to him? The bank's laying off people
again. Next week."

The netstat command displayed its results again. This time, no connection from Helraze.

"Maybe you won't have to explain anything," Judy said. "The hacker's popping in and out of the system,
removing cash, but replacing it. Could be he won't do any real damage."

"But why's he doing it?"

Damned if she knew.

One thing to do, Track the sucker. Discover the route he'd taken through the millions of Internet
computer nodes to get to Laguna Savings.

He was far away, this Helraze, routing transmission packets through forty-seven other computers. Who
the hell was this guy, and what did he want?

"Try tracing it again," Jose said.

This time, Helraze disappeared, simply disappeared as if he had never existed.

"The main password file," Jose said, "that's gotta be it." He pushed past Judy, touched an icon in the
lower corner of the screen.

She scanned the encrypted MD6 file digest, which contained the main passwords, for security breaches.
"Clean, all access codes in place and valid," she said.

"The syslogs are all clean, too, no breaches/' Jose confirmed. "Hey. what's this? Fake syslog messages,
Judy, as if dozens of superusers logged in tonight."

"Let me see." She gently nudged him aside, giving herself room again.

Superuser access was critical. It meant the hacker could get into all protected system files. He could
bring the bank to its knees, destroy everything, transfer any amount of money, anything he wanted. So
why wasn't he doing it, and quickly?