netwars--The Code 2 by M. Sean Coleman

Author:M. Sean Coleman [Coleman, M. Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-3-8387-5596-0
Publisher: Bastei Entertainment
Published: 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

It had taken Rebecca most of the day to go through the potential attack strategies she and Mitchell had discussed over breakfast. He had an incredible mind, and she had been amazed by how quickly he had ruled out certain options and proposed others. He obviously knew more about Black Flag than he was letting on, but she knew enough about the hacker group herself to know that they spelled trouble for PrinceSec and possibly the nation if they had sight of the database. Black Flag had been known to act on behalf of terrorist groups as well as carrying out their more traditional criminal activities — she was less worried about them using the database to smuggle drugs or guns into the country, and more worried about them plotting an attack on a power plant or national service as some form of terror attack.

She had appreciated Mitchell confiding in her about his criminal past, though if she was honest, she would have liked to ask him more. She had often considered how easy it would be to venture off the path when she was first learning to code, but she had never gone down the criminal route — she had always been too scared of upsetting her parents.

Her father had been a local police officer, and was so well loved and respected by the community that she had been terrified of doing anything that would harm his reputation. He had been so proud of her when she graduated. She reckoned he would have been even more proud of her right now — stuck in the midst of an investigation into a major crime ring. She could hear him now, calling her his bonnie lass and proudly telling his friends in the pub that he had taught her everything she knew. He had always said that. It had only ever been partly true.

She had spent a lot of the morning cross-referencing those clients who had switched to Cryptos over the past three months, with deposits into Prince’s secret account. Sure enough, she had found several correlations. Working on Mitchell’s assumption that Black Flag had been paying for access to client details for some months, her next step was to assess which processes and installations Prince had sold out to the criminals. Fortunately, the two sets of data made it reasonably easy to figure that out.

As they had already suspected, both of the port authorities in Southampton and Newcastle had moved to Cryptos just over a week before the database was hacked, and Prince had received a large pay-off a few days after the software had been installed in each of them. She had mapped out three scenarios for possible attacks, and sent them across to Miller and Squires in Southampton, and Roche in Newcastle. They had already heard back from Squires and Miller, who had assured them that everything in Southampton had been checked and double checked — there was no evidence of any kind of foul play, not even

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