Syvo3

It’s 9am and somebody is franticly knocking on your door…

You open the door and Jack Bauer is right there on your doorstep looking at
you with spirited eyes. He screams “Somebody set up us the bomb!”

You don’t understand and reply: “What you say!”, and then you slap Jack
several times to get him out of his hysteric blubbering. After a few seconds
he seems to regain control and he starts talking…

“There is a nuclear device that is going to explode unless we stop it. We have
only eight hours or so, until 5pm PST. The bomb has been set by a terrorist
group called Softerror.com. We have been watching them for months. We knew
they were up to something big. But we never would have imagined something of
this size.”

You are still incredulous and ask: “So what do you want from me?”

Jack says: “The bomb can only be stopped by breaking into the Softerror.com
network and neutralizing the program that will detonate the bomb. I heard that
you participated in hacking competitions at UCSB and proved to be a l33t
h4x0r. Now it’s time to prove it for real! You need to stop the bomb!”

Without waiting another second, you rush in front of your custom-order desktop
machine, which has been loaded with all sorts of attack tools and start
typing. You ask: “So what information do we have?” Jack replies: We know very
little. These guys have a public web site, in the 10.100.<team+100>.0/24
network. Nobody has been able to penetrate that. There are rumors that behind
the web site there are several different networks, one for the development of
cyber-terror tools (network 10.120.<team+100>.0/24), one to handle their
financial data (network 10.110.<team+100>.0/24), and one where the bomb has
been set (network 10.199.<team+100>.0/24). But we don’t know much about these
networks: You are our only hope!”

“Where do you get your information?”, you ask.

“We have several sources inside and outside Softerror.com. However we have to
pay a lot of money for every little piece of information. These guys are
greedy bastards!,” Jack answers, his voice starting to sound hopeless.

You stare at your browser and you type in the address that Jack gave you. You
know that this is only the beginning….