netwars--The Code 6 by M. Sean Coleman

Author:M. Sean Coleman [Coleman, M. Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-3-8387-5600-4
Publisher: Bastei Entertainment
Published: 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

This was like the best computer game he had ever played. Nightshade was using the controls of the building management system to separate Strider from the NCCU agents. He was hoping to get the hacker alone so that he could complete his task. So far, his plan was working out.

Having delivered his fake package, he had asked the guard if he could use the bathroom. He knew that there was a visitor bathroom on the ground floor, and he also knew that there was an emergency door leading to a stairwell just beyond that toilet. A quick phone call to the front desk had distracted the guard for long enough to allow him to slip through the door unnoticed.

Once in the stairwell, Nightshade sprinted to the control room for building maintenance. It was less of a room and more of a cupboard, but it held the key to his big plan: a single desktop computer which was the brain of the building control system. With access to this machine, Nightshade would be able to control every function of the building from lights to locks and lifts to air conditioning. It was going to be his own virtual doll’s house, and the NCCU would be his playthings.

Had he given himself a little more time to execute the attack, he wouldn’t have needed to come into the building at all — he could have gained control by engineering access through a trusted network. All it took was a single worker opening an email while connected to the same network and he could begin burrowing his way in. But he didn’t have time for that kind of access, he needed to move quickly. The NCCU had captured Strider, and they were holding him in their own building. Nightshade didn’t know how long they would keep him there, but he did know that if he was able to bring the agency to its knees, in its own fortress, and kill Strider at the same time, he would go down in history as one of the greats. He wouldn’t need the Salesman anymore. Killing Strider was Nightshade’s task to complete, and he was determined to do it on NCCU soil, with all of them watching helplessly as it played out.

He had quickly inserted a USB stick containing a script he had written which would allow him to remotely access this computer from outside. He toggled the windows on the monitor to make sure that, in the unlikely event of someone coming to check on a perfectly functioning machine in the ten minutes it would take him to get to his laptop, they would not see his control program. It was a crude hack and, once he had brought NCCU back online, they would find it immediately and come looking for him. He would, of course, be long gone by then.

He had made sure that he had taken down the external phone lines, so they could not call out to get the system rebooted, and he

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