Chapter 181 Merger and Acquisition

"... After the attacker gains the trust of the other party, he can forge data and exchange data with others... Using this method, he can bypass the identity authentication of both parties and directly open a channel in other people's personal space. Even if the other party and him close the connection between the personal space, he can also illegally access it through this channel... And, theoretically, using other people's personal space as a springboard, the purpose of deceiving the official server can also be achieved."

In the technical department, Doyle demonstrated the loophole he discovered about "illegal access to residents' personal space" to Han Feng and other technicians on the spot. Considering everyone's language barrier, he used English this time.

As soon as Doyle mentioned the topic, Han Feng understood the key to this loophole. He even thought clearly about the specific way to fix the loophole, but he did not interrupt Doyle's demonstration. After all, this is a good opportunity for Doyle to establish his own position in the company and let everyone accept it.

Han Feng was very satisfied with Doyle's ability. His skills in network security should be only slightly weaker than himself, so he decided to let him serve as the head of the information security department. This time, he asked him to explain the loophole he found was to give him the opportunity to establish his prestige.

Han Feng praised: "Doer, you did a good job! He made a great contribution to the company as soon as he came in!"

Others also agreed with this: "Yes, if others use this to carry out malicious hacking, it will definitely have a great impact on the reputation of our company."

Han Feng touched his chin and thought: "It seems that this vulnerability only exists in Microsoft's Windows operating system, and it is still an old version. In the latest version, they have improved this communication protocol."

Since Liudu Network faces users all over the world, there are also many client versions given. Basically, the mainstream operating systems on the market have corresponding client versions. Moreover, for Microsoft's window operating system, due to the latest generation of versions and the previous old version system architecture, many things have essentially changed, so several different versions of clients are also given.

The vulnerability pointed out by Doyle is only in Microsoft's old version of the Windows operating system. In fact, it cannot be considered as a vulnerability in the Six Degrees Space client, but a vulnerability in the operating system. This situation mainly occurs because most of the technicians are young people and are only proficient in the popular technologies now. In the past, they often don't spend much time studying things. The same is true when compiling clients, and their attitude is not so rigorous.

After hearing Han Feng's words, Doyle looked at him in surprise, then nodded and said, "Yes, you are right. This vulnerability is not universal, so there should be fewer people who can discover this vulnerability in a short period of time. However, our company has published the source code of some clients, and I believe this vulnerability will soon spread in the industry."

The "industry" he mentioned naturally refers to the hacking industry.

"Okay!" Han Feng clapped his hands, "Everyone should take action quickly. Before other experts can react, hurry up and fix this vulnerability! Well, since Doyle first discovered this vulnerability, he will take the lead in the newly established team. Everyone listens to his opinions. He is an expert in network security!"

When you encounter a problem, a special team of technicians who are on standby will be immediately formed to solve the problem. After the task is completed, the team will be disbanded and the employees will be back on standby. This is the corporate culture gradually developed by the Liudu Network Technology Department.

In the company, there is a special set of employee evaluation standards. Each time you participate in a project development, you will eventually get a certain contribution value based on the role and difficulty of the employees. The more projects you participate in, the more contribution value will be. Contribution value is an important criterion for performance appraisal. In addition, contribution value has many functions. This thing is like the general currency of Liude employees within the company, and can also be used for transactions. For example, if you want to learn a certain technology, then you can use contribution value to other masters of this technology

The colleague of the arts goes to "buy" and uses the contribution value as the tuition fee. Ask him to be a teacher to provide you with personal tuition. If you pay, you will get rewards. This is a concept that Han Feng often emphasizes. Using his own labor to exchange for contribution value. In the company, this is a very normal behavior. No one will think that this will hurt the harmony. Of course, when the contribution value is often the case, when the two colleagues are not very familiar with each other, sometimes when they learn the last, they are familiar with each other, so there is no need to mention the contribution value.

The six-degree space is getting bigger and more complex, so naturally there are more and more problems.

After the registration is fully opened, more people have entered Liude, so the probability of finding various bugs has increased a lot. Every day, customer service receives hundreds of suggestions or possible vulnerabilities. The Liude Network customer service building in Liude Space is often overcrowded. Although everyone can directly send system messages to Liude Network in their personal space, they are still more inclined to tell their situation in person. Anyway, it is just a transmission to come here, and it doesn’t take much time.

For the problems they mentioned, the customer service staff will classify them into the database, and then the testers will reproduce them based on the description of these problems to confirm whether they are real bugs. Only after confirmation will they finally submit them to colleagues in the technical department for them to solve them.

However, except for the vulnerability discovered by Doyle that can use illegal identity authentication to invade other people's private space, some other vulnerabilities are just very small bed bugs, and they can even be solved by a programmer simply modifying the source code.

After finishing Doyle's business, Han Feng met with a representative of Blizzard Entertainment in the afternoon, Ruobo & Paddo, Blizzard's vice president, a typical IT elite in his forties.

Han Feng smiled and said in English: "Mr. Pador, I'm so sorry for keeping you waiting for a long time."

"Chinese style, we didn't make an appointment before, and we came to visit rashly, which disturbed your normal schedule. I'm sorry, it should be us." Ruobo instead used Chinese.

After hearing this, Han Feng was a little stunned. It was not because the other party spoke standard Chinese, but because he called him. Chinese style, which is what Western media called him.

"In addition, the beautiful Nancy took us to visit the style of your company. I personally feel that time has passed a little faster. It's really surprising that your company has formed its own unique corporate culture. It's hard to believe that it is a new company that has just been established!"

Han Feng looked at Yang Xiwen with admiration, and then turned to the topic: "Mr. Pador, Blizzard Company has always been famous for producing high-quality games. Many employees, including me, like "Starcraft", "Diablo" and "Warcraft" produced by your company, like it very much..." Han Feng first briefly said Blizzard's glory, Xiao patted Ruobo's flattery, and then continued, "I feel very honored to be able to cooperate with you! I don't know what your specific plan is, so I will refer to it together?"

Although Ruobo has become used to hearing other people's praise, he still feels very happy when he hears it from the mouth of President Liude again. After hearing Han Feng's last sentence, he calmed down for a while, and then said: "Liude Space is a very creative product that realizes the wonderful virtual space that science fiction master Stephen & King imagined in his work "Avalanche"... What I want to say is that our company is very interested in your company and wants to acquire all the equity of your company. I wonder what you think?"

"Whole-owned acquisition?!" Yang Xiwen was so surprised that she almost didn't even hold the documents in her hands. She always thought that Blizzard was just here to discuss cooperation, and the scope was limited to the game field. She didn't expect that they were here to discuss acquisition.

Han Feng was obviously a little surprised. He didn't expect the other party to have such a big appetite. He replied without hesitation: "Liudu will definitely not sell it, but I'm very curious. What is the estimated price you gave to my company?"

"450 million US dollars!" Ruobo kept staring at Han Feng when he was quoting. Unfortunately, he did not see any information on his face expressing joy, and even his pupils did not change.

"450 million US dollars, thank you for your company's evaluation of us. Unexpectedly, our market value has increased several times as soon as the registration is opened, haha!"

Ruobo saw that Han Feng was indifferent, so he said: "Chinese style, please do not reject mergers and acquisitions and integrations. Sometimes this is an inevitable stage of the company's development. You know, our previous studio was eventually acquired by the parent company of Weiwangdi. What you saw, we basically had no impact. On the contrary, we became bigger and bigger!"
Chapter completed!