DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

[mark]

There's a malware kit in the wild specifically to ddos the
healthcare.govwebsite:
http://www.examiner.com/article/right-wing-cyber-attacks-on-healthcare-gov-website-confirmed

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mark


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> MOD>
>
>> I'm sure some would not be displeased to see the
>> term "open source" get Embraced And Extended and
>> turned into a pejorative the way "hacker" was...
>
>
> the Intelligence community has had "sources" longer than the computation
> community has, and they distinguish "open" vs "covert"/"secret". The
> terminological collision is inevitable. ("overt action" might be more
> linguistically appropriate, if that's what they mean, but bureaucrats
> aren't known for that.) Combining our meaning and theirs in the "Open
> Source Media" movement is confusing, since they mean *both* meanings at
> once, but that's alas natural evolution.
>
> Evidence may be appearing of SQL injection attacks, the linkned
> un-confirmed image shows SQL in suggested searches on Healthcare.gov
> https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/402365655250644992/photo/1
> which suggests (as noted by
> https://twitter.com/Green_Footballs/status/402606184277868544) that those
> attacks are most popular queries ... which would seem to confirm a sig % of
> traffic is adversarial.
>
> --
> Bill
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