Vamos!: Small island, big trouble. Action crime adventure (Cain Book 3) by Tom Trott

Author:Tom Trott [Trott, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-07T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Three

Maria followed Bob into the data centre, Cain trailing behind them. Bob swiped his card to let them into a small lobby past an unmanned security booth. Two corners and two corridors later, they passed a revolving glass door with a biometric eye scanner.

‘What’s in there?’ Maria asked. ‘It looks like somewhere you’d launch nuclear missiles from.’

‘That gets you onto the floor.’

‘The floor?’

‘Where the servers are.’

‘You have to go through all that just to get to some big computers?’

‘Those servers contain the personal and financial data of tens of thousands of people and hundreds of companies. And we’re a small data centre.’

She was impressed, she never realised his job required such privileged access.

‘It’s warm in here,’ Cain said, ‘I expected it to be cold.’

‘The servers are actually most efficient at around eighty degrees. Fahrenheit, obviously. They’re cooled by water pumped through pipes over the top, and the resulting heat transfer supplies warm water for heating the rest of the building. When needed.’

‘What about the hot water for the taps?’

Bob smiled. ‘I don’t know.’

They passed through another swipe-card door into a small office. There were four desks and a worktable in the middle strewn with disassembled computer parts.

Bob sat at his desk, ignored the computer on top, and pulled a laptop from a bottom drawer. ‘You’re still sure you want to do this?’

Maria scoffed. ‘The walk didn’t change my mind.’

He powered on the laptop.

‘Is that your secret hacking laptop for all your dodgy online activities?’

He smiled. ‘Yeah.’

‘Turkish Netflix, or whatever it is you do.’

‘That’s perfectly legal.’

‘Turkish Netflix?’ Cain asked.

‘Bob doesn’t like to pay the full price for things, so he used a VPN to make it look like he was in Turkey when he set up the account so he can pay the Turkish rates. He then uses the VPN to watch what he wants from other countries.’

‘I don’t follow, but don’t bother explaining.’

She turned back to Bob. ‘How will you get around the MFA?’

He frowned. ‘I’m going to try a little bit of social engineering.’

‘Social engineering?’ Cain asked.

‘It’s what they call it when the bad actor convinces you to provide them with confidential information, usually by pretending to be someone they’re not. Like when they call you up pretending to be your bank or credit card company and tell you that they’re going to cancel your card unless you provide them with your date of birth and password.’

Cain grinned. ‘I call it trickery.’

She connected Oscar’s laptop to a hotspot from Bob’s phone and got ready to open his email account.

‘Don’t do it yet,’ Bob said, ‘if he gets a code before I send my message, he’ll get suspicious.’

‘Send your message?’ Maria asked.

‘Yeah, what’s his number?’

She opened the contacts app on her phone and found it, reading it out to Bob.

‘That’s not the same number,’ Cain said.

‘What?’

‘When it sent the code before, it said it was sending it to a number ending 89.’

‘You’re sure?’

He nodded. ‘He’ll definitely have more than one phone.’

‘It will still work though, right?’

Bob shook his head; he looked a little relieved.

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