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Right wing cyber attacks on Healthcare.gov website confirmed
Examiner.com ^ | 11/14/2013 | David Phillips

Posted on 11/17/2013 5:55:46 AM PST by Beave Meister

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 Security’s Office of Cyber-security and Communications, who confirmed at least 16 attacks on the Affordable Care Act’s 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!"

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine
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To: Beave Meister

I wish.


41 posted on 11/17/2013 6:58:25 AM PST by Heart of Georgia
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To: Conspiracy Guy

It was about Tuesday of last week when Piglosi came out and said (paraphrased) “The Republicans are doing everything that they can to sabotage Øbamacare” that it was a trial balloon and I knew this sort of slander was coming.

We don’t have to sabotage anything - they sabotaged themselves by foisting a sh!tty product upon the people.


42 posted on 11/17/2013 6:59:43 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Beave Meister
Of course they blame the right wing for brownie points. But I would put my money on the youts who see this whole computer mess as a joke. Why would any smart computer savvy young person want to be part of this. I predicted from day one that the young people will retaliate. Only old lunatics like Reid and Pelosi would believe such an idiotic concept could work.
43 posted on 11/17/2013 7:03:15 AM PST by jetson
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To: Lazamataz
No stress load or pert testing was done. Highly doubtful they did pen testing or vulnerability scans before go-live.

funny thing is, the site is broke on its own. All that's left for a hacker to do is FIX the site

44 posted on 11/17/2013 7:03:52 AM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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To: Beave Meister

Sounds like the Internet version of the Reichstag fire.


45 posted on 11/17/2013 7:07:51 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Lazamataz
A) Very bad idea.
B) Possible felony.
C) Very bad idea.
D) We want it to work, and WELL, so Americans can gaze in horror at the rates and lack of service they will get.
E) Very bad idea.
F) Allows the left to demonize us.
F) Very bad idea.
Oh, did I mention? It's a very bad idea.

Or, possibly an act of patriotism - some are willing to accept consequences up to and including death. The Left doesn't need a reason to demonize us. They are like zombies - brain dead, feed off their fellows, try to corrupt and turn their fellows into what they are.

Speaking of which - I went to W-Mart and saw a Toyota FJ Cruiser with stickers proclaiming it to be a "Zombie Outbreak Response Vehicle". Had those decals on rear side windows. Rear window had a sticker proclaiming "Zombie Response Team" and had a "permit to hunt zombie - no daily bag limit, rifle and handgun of .223 and higher caliber, and the suggestion to decapitate and burn remains to prevent spread.

I'm assuming it was either a Conservative "gun nut" or a Dim trying to be funny w/o realizing he was advocating hunting his own kind.

On a brighter note - there was a woman of about 30 who had her NRA - Stand and Fight sticker.

Right/wrong/bad idea or not, if our side abides by all the "rules", we get stomped...what did Einstein say about insanity?

46 posted on 11/17/2013 7:08:26 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Lazamataz
House Homeland Security Committee

Ministry of Propaganda is more like it.

Could this be Hillary's Vast Right Wing Conspiracy come back to bedevil the altruistic Democrats?

If we were so damn powerful, we wouldn't be under the boot heel of these fascist pigs right now.

47 posted on 11/17/2013 7:08:54 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Only the beginning.

1. Biggest Democrat disaster since the Vietnam war.
2. Corrupt Chicago thug President with unlimited resources.
3. Inevitable deflection an oppression.


48 posted on 11/17/2013 7:19:44 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: trebb

It’s a very bad idea.


49 posted on 11/17/2013 7:20:43 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: The Toll

Very good!


50 posted on 11/17/2013 7:25:03 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: NTHockey
"Of course, no proof of “right wing” organizations being involved. With this regime, it could even be a “false flag” operation to discredit their enemies."

This is a typical Marxist strategy. It is called Black Propaganda, (Read: Propaganda that is untrue but holds the possibility of being feasible.

The democrat party is now the communist party USA. I will personally always substitute the words democrat party with communist party even at the local level.

51 posted on 11/17/2013 7:27:14 AM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: Beave Meister

Focusing on Obamacare’s website problem is like criticizing a serial killer for his ugly shirt.


52 posted on 11/17/2013 7:27:30 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Beave Meister

From following the links in this thread, it appears this tool makes multiple alternate page requests from the ACA website. This probably defeats the advantage of “caching”. It seems to have been downloaded and run by more than one person. Then it is described as “a distributed denial of service attack”.

This sounds worse than it probably is. The political angle is Left wing paranoia. This sort of “attack” shouldn’t faze a web site designed to be accessed by millions of people.


53 posted on 11/17/2013 7:29:14 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Oh, look, meme-building by Partisan Media Shills:

> 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 Zerocare website could be taken down by a single C64.


54 posted on 11/17/2013 7:33:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: rockrr

Correct.


55 posted on 11/17/2013 7:44:50 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (On the evening of 10/16/13, the ailing republican party breathed its last breath.)
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To: Rapscallion
Left-wingers, liberals, progressives and plain old Democrats continue to make these baseless allegations.

Minor point:

The left generally doesn't make baseless allegations.

They usually allege we are doing what they, themselves, are doing, or would be, given a chance.

That is the base.

56 posted on 11/17/2013 8:04:00 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Beave Meister
Eff them. Here is the true goal of Obamacare: Punishing the "bad comrades" to bring them around to groveling before Big Socialism.


57 posted on 11/17/2013 8:11:35 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Beave Meister
Right wing cyber attacks on Healthcare.gov website confirmed

As crappy as that website is, merely complying with emperor Hussein's orders to log on could be construed as a "cyber attack".

58 posted on 11/17/2013 8:26:16 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Who but a TYRANT shoves down another man's throat what he has exempted himself from?)
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To: humblegunner

I watched the whole video of the hearing, and there was no mention whatsoever of “right-wing” cyber attacks on the Health Care website.


59 posted on 11/17/2013 8:42:00 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Beave Meister; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; GeronL
Skeptic cat is skeptical.


60 posted on 11/17/2013 8:51:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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