The impact of the vulnerability is too wide, and the notice appeared only after 11 o'clock in the night, so a large number of programmers, network security engineers, penetration engineers, network engineers, etc. hurried out of bed to the company.
Some network security companies, such as 360 and Tianrongxin, are also very busy.
Theoretically, there are only two well-known information technology companies that are least busy in China.
One is the Ali system.
The first is the winning player Bolang Group.
But in fact, one family is busier than the other.
Alibaba executives are not all stupid, and the impact of such late-night announcements on Alibaba Cloud is unpredictable.
The Bolang Group is fully preparing to seize benefits from this event that exceeds the impact of the previous prism.
Top-level strategic decision-making center of Bolang Group Headquarters
Li Zezheng is taking command.
It was very busy up and down.
In principle, changes in the situation need to be reported at a maximum interval of every thirty minutes. If there are special events, report them at any time.
"Some netizens have taken the initiative to publish content about using Xinghai workstation to simulate and reproduce the vulnerability and attack it. The Xingchen desktop system failed because the Xingchen desktop system does not support third-party components. However, some people have reproduced the vulnerability by running Windows through the 'Xingchen Lingjing'..."
"As of now, Baie, Baidu, JD.com, 360, Tianrongxin and a series of other companies have taken some public opinion marketing actions..."
Li Ze nodded lightly: "Continue to pay attention."
The person in charge of the Public Opinion Center moved his lips, but still made no sound.
Li Ze, who had already lowered his head to look at the computer screen on his desk, said calmly: "Don't throw away your long-standing principles just because new interests appear. New interests will always appear, but opportunities to build reputation don't come often."
"I understand!" the person in charge continued, "Thank you, Mr. Ze, for your criticism!"
Li Ze's meaning is very simple.
Bolang has insisted on calling since last year, insisting that it no longer conduct unnecessary online marketing and promotion strategies in the domestic market, and only carry out necessary advertising and important announcements. It cannot give up immediately just because everyone is competing for the end.
Bolang Group is indeed the company with the most ability and capital to carry out public opinion marketing in the domestic market.
But it’s also the most unnecessary.
Because word of mouth has already appeared.
With its excellent product experience and extraordinary technological leadership, the Xinghai brand has initially established a global reputation in less than a year.
For a brand to truly take shape, it requires time and long-term persistence.
This is a very simple and clear thing.
For example, in a broad sense, Apple and Juchang are the only two mobile phone brands left in the domestic market. Even in the domestic market, whether you admit it or not, the reputation of the former is more stable than that of the latter.
Sales volume can also illustrate this point.
If we only look at the high-end series... that is, comparing them at the same level, the total sales of all models in Juchang's high-end Mate series is only about 20% of Apple's total sales in the Chinese market.
The total sales of the Mate series are approximately four times the annual sales of Apple in 2015, its best performance in the Chinese market.
This still does not compare with Apple's global market sales data.
All in all, public opinion marketing is a double-edged sword. No matter how it is used, whether it is used well or badly, the result is the same, hurting others and hurting yourself.
Putting aside factors such as reputation and experience, why do Chinese consumers choose Apple?
Anyway, when people need to spend money to pay, their choices will be relatively more real.
The situation that Bolang is facing now is even worse than that of Juchang's later generations. Bolang's advantage in terms of public opinion is unmatched by all domestic Internet companies and marketing companies bundled together.
Is it because Bolang can't use it? No, it's because Bolang doesn't want to use it.
We must know that more than 99% of the most popular, most popular and authentic Internet celebrities and celebrities in the domestic market currently have a relationship with Bolang as brand partners.
But Bolang Terminal has not found any spokesperson so far, nor has it found any Internet celebrities or celebrities for advertising and promotion.
What is involved here is a difference in philosophy.
All means, including advertising, marketing, public opinion marketing, etc., can never compare to the most authentic user experience, that's all.
Li Ze has followed the development of Bolang Group until now, and has already understood these seemingly simple concepts.
A simple example.
A series of companies such as White Goose are now hurriedly marketing through public opinion. Can they compare to the "Bolang that wins by lying down" that netizens are now discussing enthusiastically?
Incomparable.
This is not even a word of mouth, it is just a simple technological leadership~
The unreasonable kind.
Li Ze compiled all kinds of information and gradually formed a clear idea in his mind.
'According to the relevant procedures, such a large impact should have relevant notifications, not just an announcement.'
'Lao Wen has also determined that there will be punishment.'
'This time is not normal working hours...'
so……
It's time to get off work!
Thinking of this, Li Ze sorted things out a little, stood up and greeted everyone: "It's almost time. Everyone, please go back and rest. Thank you for your hard work."
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"????"
Everyone in the room looked confused.
What's going on?
It's such a big deal, you just have to get off work right after get off work? We're not people who have to go to work tomorrow after staying up all night, we all work in three or four shifts, okay?
Li Ze didn't know how to explain, so he left the decision-making center first.
Everyone looked at each other for a moment, then gathered up and handed over the work at hand so that the colleagues who would take over the work tomorrow could know where the progress of the process had stopped as quickly as possible.
In less than ten minutes, there were only a few brightly lit floors in the entire 36-story building, and the top one was missing.
The remaining floors are recreational and fitness facilities open to all employees 24 hours a day.
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The next day, Saturday the 26th, many melon-eating netizens woke up early and were startled by the big movement last night, and quickly joined the melon-eating army.
There are endless jokes, memes, and action-show content.
After all, it is a technical job.
Moreover, it is a hot topic that has been on many hot searches and has been linked to many well-known companies.
Tech geeks, why don’t you just join in the fun and wait~
A lot of articles, videos and other content analyze, study, reproduce, analyze from various angles, and popularize how amazing, how dangerous, how low-level this vulnerability is, and how...
Some people even reposted statistics from relevant overseas security websites very quickly, saying that in less than two weeks, because Alibaba Cloud reported the vulnerability to Apache, there were more than 300,000 attacks that exploited the vulnerability.
And last night was the pinnacle.
In short, there are all kinds of content on the Internet, and there are all kinds of discussions.
At this time, a series of companies such as White Goose could no longer resist carving up Alibaba Cloud. No one is a fool. If Alibaba Cloud does not take the initiative to report or cooperate, it will suffer.
Even if units such as the Industry and Information Technology Corporation will not directly make a penalty decision, such an operational crisis is an opportunity for peers.
Concrete manifestations soon emerged.
The first to take actual action is Bai Geese, who has been targeting Alibaba for the past month.
In addition, White Goose is also the protagonist who takes the lead in responding to the Alibaba offensive with its partners Bolang, JD.com and other companies.
There was no need for Mapperly to come forward, everything was completely arranged.
White Goose Cloud has launched a year-end special promotion.
The main idea is: "Bai E Cloud is now launching a year-end special promotion, the cost is as low as 6 yuan per month, and there are many benefits for newcomers, welcome to join."
This kind of special offer can attract users in normal times, not to mention now, many personal engineers among Internet practitioners are eager to give it a try.
Because whether it is an individual, an individual business or a large enterprise, once they go to the cloud, they all like to choose multiple cloud service providers.
Some large enterprises generally choose at least two or more cloud service providers.
There is occasionally a special phenomenon here. Some large-scale Internet companies in the development stage may only choose one cloud service provider and rent cloud nodes in different regions.
For example, in China, they are generally East China, North China, Central China, South China and other regions.
As for large Internet companies that have gone through the development period, they basically build their own infrastructure and then build their own clouds. Therefore, although the market for cloud services is actually getting bigger year by year, in the end it will have to reach the point of word-of-mouth trading.
The domestic market may be a little bit special. Cloud services on platforms such as government affairs are all subject to external bidding. Cloud service providers such as Alibaba Cloud generally provide services, or general cloud services, or overall solutions.
It should be said that the situation is probably similar around the world. Generally speaking, official institutions do not engage in such old R&D work themselves, but instead find civilian and commercial solutions through bidding.
Only some special units can do it themselves, or manufacturers can provide basic solutions and then optimize them themselves.
Anyway, in the end of this type of business, the most popular ones are the official centralized purchases.
Like communication, storage, cloud...
It's all like this.
It's just that most of them are one-off transactions, not as smooth as those for the consumer market. After all, there are always people who will start businesses abroad, and there will always be companies that will expand...
While Baigo took the lead in launching big promotions to seize the market, JD.com followed suit and released relevant content.
Of course, a large e-commerce company like JD.com also has its own cloud, but it has never been commercially used.
If there is no such opportunity, according to development, JD.com will not officially commercialize JD Cloud until 2016 and enter China's cloud computing market.
It's now nearly three years ahead of schedule.
"Jingdong Cloud is officially commercialized and has launched special promotions with prices as low as 50% off. Jingdong Cloud has gone through many 618 events and Double 11 events, supporting Jingdong's massive promotions with massive high-concurrency requests and realizing full business containerization, which is trustworthy."
JD.com is also very efficient. It completed the deployment and debugging of the JD Cloud official website almost overnight, and then launched it directly.
Baie Cloud and JD Cloud have successively released great benefits, which can be said to be a carnival for individuals, individual enterprises, and small businesses who need cloud services.
However, this is not over yet.
Then even the three major operators joined in the fun. To be honest, they are the ones with the largest Internet infrastructure in the domestic market.
They have also stumbled into the cloud computing market long ago.
At the same time, Juchang made a similar choice as JD.com and promoted its cloud computing services.
Then there are cybersecurity companies joining in the fun.
Alibaba Cloud, which is at the center of the focus, has made no sound and dare not make any noise. At this time, there is no need to consider the punishment of the competent authority, only the anger of the entire industry, and there is no need to say anything.
You, Alibaba Cloud, are awesome. You have discovered a serious vulnerability and notified industry organizations. There is nothing wrong with this. How long have you been riding the horse in the past? Would you like to inform everyone?
Are you happy?
We have been running naked around the world for so many days!
This is called...
Public outrage.
However, what makes countless netizens wonder is that Bolang, a company with a well-developed e-commerce business, has clearly launched the Star Cloud system half a year ago, etc., but there is no sound at all?
"No way, no way, is Bolang going to repay evil with kindness? During this period, Bolang's Internet business has been targeted by Alibaba everywhere, and the scope has expanded to logistics, online payment and other industries. How come such a good opportunity is not available?
movement?"
"Yes, yes, aren't they all saying that Bolang has won? The Xingchen all-day system will not be affected directly. At this time, Bolang only needs to say hello, and the cloud computing commercial strategy can take a big step forward!"
"I don't understand. Is it falling into the big pie of China Mobile's 4G centralized procurement? Exclusive supply is indeed a bit comfortable."
"I don't know if you have noticed. From the time the incident came out until now, Bolang officials have been quiet. They have not advertised the safety of Xingchen, and they have not joined in the fun. All the comments about Bolang lying down and winning on the Internet are voluntarily blocked by big players.
of……"
"Brother upstairs, if you can think back carefully, you will find that Bolang has rarely participated in public opinion since a long time ago, but it seems to be very active in overseas markets."
Jiu Ai is very anxious today: "I have a hunch that this wave, Bolang will be more exciting than the previous 4G stage. There is a high probability that we will have the last laugh without fighting or competing. I will put the prediction here first. If I am wrong, don't hit me."
Face."
…………
At this point, the official conclusion has been sealed.
Regarding Alibaba Cloud, its wording can be considered rather harsh.
Two ‘never’s’.
As for the penalty notification, it cannot be considered... particularly serious. The key point is to suspend cooperation with the network security threat information sharing platform. The rest are suggestions.
Nonetheless, this is a devastating blow to Alibaba Cloud at the moment.
Because the current Alibaba Cloud is not the Alibaba Cloud of later generations, the strength of its competitors is not that bad, and... Gongxin has also stepped forward to directly support Xingchen Cloud.
After the news spread, netizens were very excited.
Especially the one ‘Jiu Ai is very dry today’.
"Look, look, my prediction has come true. What else can compare with this level of support? We will win in the end without fighting or fighting! It has to be Bo Lang!"
"..."
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PS: Unknowingly, the number of words in this month's update has exceeded 100,000... I originally wrote a paragraph to explain again the difficulty of research and development of chips, etc., but after thinking about it, I forgot about it. There is no point in emphasizing more. After all, the reality is so messed up and there are still a lot of them.
People believe that it is as described by public opinion, what else can they say...
In such a big environment, writing such a business article is actually very tiring, even more tiring than Wen Liang~