| Healthcare.gov 'may already have been compromised,' security expert says [message #187557] |
Wed, 20 November 2013 16:03 |
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Not only is healthcare.gov at risk, it may already have been compromised, a security expert testified before the Senate.
"Hackers are definitely after it," said David Kennedy, CEO of information security firm TrustedSEC before a House Science, Space, and Technology committee hearing on security concerns surrounding the problematic Healthcare.gov website.
"And if I had to guess, based on what I can see ... I would say the website is either hacked already or will be soon."
Kennedy told FoxNews.com he based this on an analysis revealing a large number of SQL injection attacks against the healthcare.gov website, which are indicative of "a large amount" of hacking attempts.
"Based on the exposures that I identified, and many that I haven't published due to the criticality of exposures if a hacker wanted access to the site or sensitive information they could get it," he told FoxNews.com.
A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, which runs the nation's new healthcare website, did not immediately respond to a request to for more information.
One key problem facing Healthcare.gov is that security wasn't built into the site from the very beginning, he said -- an opinion shared by both Kennedy and Fred Chang, the distinguished chair in cyber security at Southern Methodist University.
"There's not a lot of security built into the site, at least that's what we can see from a 10,000 foot view," Kennedy told the committee. And although the site doesn't house medical records, it integrates deeply with other sites, includes ecommerce information, and houses a vast array of data that presents a very salient target.
"It's not only social security numbers ... it's one of the largest collections of personal data, social security and everything else, that we've ever seen," Kennedy said.
Full article: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/11/19/healthcaregov-already -compromised-security-expert-says/
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