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Obamacare Site Security (or, lack therof)
« on: January 16, 2014, 11:58:04 AM »
I had to note this, not only for the political implications, but the interesting way that I just learned about Mr. Mitnick yesterday here1 on APS (followed by some reading on my own) and today he's in the news.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/01/16/world-greatest-hacker-calls-healthcaregov-security-shameful/


I just have to wonder what will happen when the security breach happens is admitted to. (I'm betting many have already happened.)




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Quote from: AJ Dual on January 15, 2014, 01:03:01 PM
Reminds me of the hysteria prison guards had over Kevin Mitnick, when they believed he could whistle Captian Crunch/2600 tones at a open phone from across the room, and launch nuclear missiles.
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Re: Obamacare Site Security (or, lack therof)
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2014, 12:13:57 PM »
Anybody else getting an error when trying to load that article?   Others work, just not the linked one . . .

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Re: Obamacare Site Security (or, lack therof)
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2014, 12:15:11 PM »
Nevermind!  Now it's working.  It probably just took a while for NSA to record my IP, etc. . . . .


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Re: Obamacare Site Security (or, lack therof)
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2014, 12:18:40 PM »
Why would anyone go to the trouble of hacking Obamacare for what, like 5 SSN's?
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Re: Obamacare Site Security (or, lack therof)
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2014, 12:37:01 PM »
Quote from: dogmush on January 16, 2014, 12:18:40 PM
Why would anyone go to the trouble of hacking Obamacare for what, like 5 SSN's?

And all of those people with no assets  =D
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Re: Obamacare Site Security (or, lack therof)
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2014, 12:40:05 PM »
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“Nobody here at this table can tell you there is a vulnerability,” (Waylon Krush) said during testimony. To actually test the flaws would require hacking the website itself, which would mean breaking the law, he noted.

Because nobody would do something illegal . . . .

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Re: Obamacare Site Security (or, lack therof)
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2014, 03:42:37 PM »

Mitnick is a very nice guy and all. But he's not the world's greatest hacker. Back in the day, he was good at some phone stuff (which has radically changed) and social engineering. Just an aside, he is a pretty good security guy.

And yes, it has vulnerabilities. They did a crap job on infrastructure. Generally, security is usually worse than a place's infrastructure. That should tell ya how bad I suspect it is.
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Re: Re: Obamacare Site Security (or, lack therof)
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2014, 05:04:29 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on January 16, 2014, 03:42:37 PM
Mitnick is a very nice guy and all. But he's not the world's greatest hacker. Back in the day, he was good at some phone stuff (which has radically changed) and social engineering. Just an aside, he is a pretty good security guy.

And yes, it has vulnerabilities. They did a crap job on infrastructure. Generally, security is usually worse than a place's infrastructure. That should tell ya how bad I suspect it is.


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