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Yep, I called it on Day One.
From Examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/article/right-wing-cyber-attacks-on-healthcare-gov-website-confirmed
Yesterday, the House Homeland Security Committee published a video on their Youtube page highlighting a portion of the committee questioning Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Securitys Office of Cyber-security and Communications, who confirmed at least 16 attacks on the Affordable Care Acts portal Healthcare.gov website in 2013.
Roberta Stempfley highlighted one successful attack that is designed to deny access to the website called a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack is designed to make a network unavailable to intended users, generally through a concerted effort to disrupt service such as repeatedly accessing the servers, saturating them with more traffic than the website is designed to handle.
Right wingers have been distributing the link to the necessary tools to perform the attacks on the Healthcare.gov website through social networking, as pointed out by Information Week, and other websites .
The name of the attack tool is called, "Destroy Obama Care!"
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Historic NY
(37,453 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)gtar100
(4,192 posts)But I'm not surprised given what pathetic excuses for human beings right wingers are.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)So yes the software exists, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. I mean come on, were talking wingers here.
From Information Weekly.
Eisenbarth said this DDoS tool most likely can't deliver what it promises. "The request rate, the non-distributed attack architecture and many other limitations make this tool unlikely to succeed in affecting the availability of the healthcare.gov site," he said. Furthermore, he noted that to date, Arbor has seen no "active use of this software."
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)If not, why not? And why don't we hear about this on the TV media?
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)I'm holding judgement until I read it on OpEdNews.com.
AnnieBW
(10,457 posts)I posted the Las Vegas Examiner link because InfoWeek was getting pounded. (Hubby was checking that one.)
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)In part, the tool's apparent inability to take down targeted Healthcare.gov websites demonstrates how grassroots DDoS attacks often face an uphill battle, owing to either technical problems or a lack of a critical mass of participants. Indeed, even some past, large-scale DDoS attacks launched by the hacktivist collective Anonymous didn't succeed in overwhelming targeted sites until -- reportedly -- bot-master benefactors temporarily brought legions of "zombie" PCs to bear on targeted sites.
InfoWeek