In Deep with the FBI Agent by Silver Lynne

Author:Silver, Lynne [Silver, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2016-01-12T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Sam’s brain was filled with fog today, and no wonder. The sex haze had filled it last night, and now it was Monday morning. On a good day, Mondays were a bit slower than the rest of the week, but after spending yesterday afternoon making love to the woman of his dreams, it was no mystery why his head was operating on sluggish.

So Casey’s overheard conversation was the best lead they had. Everywhere else they turned was a dead end. Best he could tell, the breaches were a pure case of social engineering.

They’d gone into several of the affected schools to dig deeper into their networks and systems, but found nothing. As usual, employees had crappy passwords, easily guessed by anyone who knew them more than a minute. In most cases, it seemed nothing had been stolen. It was as if whoever was breaking in was part of the network, which supported Sam’s social engineering theory. Except it didn’t make sense that dozens of schools were now reporting similar security breaches. Three or four could’ve been explained away, but not this many. As he’d explained to Casey late during pillow talk, social engineering was holding the door open for someone at work, even if you needed a badge or key to get in. It was rude to shut the door in someone’s face, and social engineers counted on that fact. Only in the private school case, it was as if fifty separate people were holding virtual doors open at fifty different schools at roughly the same time.

All of the breaches had been done by using the password of an employee. They’d been investigating each employee whose password had been used, but turning up nothing.

No one had a motive. None of them stood to benefit, and all of them claimed innocence. Doing background checks was time consuming, especially with their limited resources. They didn’t have the manpower to assign a tail to all of the various school employees around the country.

“Shit,” he muttered and ran his fingers through his hair as he studied IP addresses and source code. “Goddamn Tor Project.” Tor was the bane of his and his department’s existence. Tor allowed anyone to mask their IP address, leaving the FBI or other law enforcement no way to track the source.

Basically it was like driving down a highway and then coming to a brick wall. They could see doors in the wall, aka exit nodes, but once the door was shut, it was a dead end. Luckily, no one was perfect and eventually everyone screwed up, allowing Sam and people like him to track down the bad guys. All he had to do was wait for a mistake and hope it came soon.

Why the hell were people so paranoid about the government monitoring Internet traffic that they felt they had to use something like Tor? Didn’t they realize how understaffed and over budget government agencies were? As if the FBI had time or resources to monitor every digital conversation and transaction in the country.

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