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Insecure healthcare.gov allowed hacker to access 70,000 records in 4 minutes

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Dissent

Darlene Storm reports:

When it comes to the atrocious state of HealthCare.gov security, white hat hacker David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, may feel like he’s beating his head against a stone wall. Kennedy said, “I don’t understand how we’re still discussing whether the website is insecure or not. It is; there’s no question about that.” He added, “It is insecure – 100 percent.”

Read more on Computerworld.

Related: TrustedSec testimony (pdf) to the House Science, and Technology Committee on Jan. 16 (h/t, Joe Cadillic)


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