Right wing cyber attacks on Healthcare.gov website confirmed

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65. Ok, you can think what you want, but on a modern system the attacks aren't directed at the

website, they are directed at the IP address the DNS directs them to, and that's not the web server, not directly. This is just one of many ways it could be done, but, for example:


Notice how "Web Instances" are on a private subnet? The traffic to them comes from the Internet, hits a load balancer then routers and proxy servers - and HAS to be routed onto their network, which is otherwise unreachable. No one that is competent is going to allow such a juvenile attempt at creating attack traffic onto the network. And the people caring for government computers are some of the most competent in the world.

But they aren't the ones who managed the creation of the web site.

Unless someone who couldn't even buy a clue set this up, (which is possible, I suppose, but I doubt it) that IP address points to an interface on a separate network. The traffic, IF you decide to let it through, is then routed onto a virtual network where the actual web site resides. It NEVER, EVER gets directly to the interface of the server, which likely only exists in software anyway.

So the whole idea that a bunch of bubbas can run a kiddie script and have any effect on this at all is more like a fairy tale.

But if you want to think otherwise, that's your option, of course. cya.