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The Zombie Hunters
Best Sports, called Network Presence for help. Don Best, which is
based in Las Vegas, is a kind of Bloomberg for the gambling world,
providing betting lines for both real-world and online casinos. The
company had ignored an e-mailed extortion demand for two hundred
thousand dollars, and it was under attack. Network Presence sent Lyon.
The next day, Lyon and another engineer flew to Las Vegas and helped
Don Best’s engineers set up powerful new servers. Lyon’s strategy
worked: the attackers gave up. Corbo treated them to a night out in
Vegas, with dinner in front of the Bellagio fountains. (He also paid
Network Presence a fee.)
Lyon still wanted to find out who was behind the attacks. He and
Brown scanned the traffic data, found a zombie, and, thanks to an
opening in Microsoft Windows, were able to see what other computers it
had been connected to. This led them to a chat server in Kazakhstan;
when they connected to it, they saw more attacks in progress. They
notified the F.B.I. and the Secret Service, but, Brown said, “they sort
of threw up their arms, because it was in Kazakhstan.” To Lyon, however,
the lesson was clear: with clever techniques and a little luck, any
attacker could be found.
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