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Expert: Healthcare.gov Security Risks Even Worse After ‘Fix’
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | 12/3/2013 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 12/03/2013 7:15:11 PM PST by Beave Meister

The Obamacare insurance marketplace is even more vulnerable to security breaches since the administration “fixed” Healthcare.gov, according to a cyber security expert.

Health and Human Services (HHS) released a progress report on Sunday following its self-imposed Nov. 30 deadline to repair the website, saying that the “team has knocked more than 400 bug fixes and software improvements off the punch list.”

The administration said that the “site capacity is stable at its intended level,” though the site continued to crash on Monday.

The eight-page report made no mention of the website’s numerous security flaws, which experts say put Americans’ personal information at risk.

“It doesn’t appear that any security fixes were done at all,” David Kennedy, CEO of the online security firm TrustedSec, told the Washington Free Beacon.

Kennedy said fundamental safeguards missing from Healthcare.gov that were identified by his company more than a month ago have yet to be put in place.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: aca; congress; corruption; democrats; fix; fraud; healthcare; healthcaregov; insurance; liberals; lyingliberalliars; obama; obamacare; obamacarelies; scandals; thebigfix
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
1 posted on 12/03/2013 7:15:11 PM PST by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

the fix is in


2 posted on 12/03/2013 7:16:21 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Beave Meister

Six and a half million ... for what? Something that doesn’t work? I could have given them something that doesn’t work for a lot less.


3 posted on 12/03/2013 7:24:13 PM PST by doc1019 (Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened!)
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To: Beave Meister
America is a laughingstock.
The technically most advanced nation on the planet could not even launch a website.
And the website is the least of all the problems with 0-care.

4 posted on 12/03/2013 7:27:59 PM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: doc1019

Did you mean $650 million?


5 posted on 12/03/2013 7:34:49 PM PST by MulberryDraw (Repeal it.)
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To: MulberryDraw

Sorry, my bad.


6 posted on 12/03/2013 7:36:26 PM PST by doc1019 (Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened!)
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To: Beave Meister
Let us not forget: healthcare.gov is not supposed to work. It's a canard.
7 posted on 12/03/2013 8:35:37 PM PST by upchuck (I can't stand people that don't know the difference between 'than' and 'then.' Their so stupid...)
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To: BitWielder1

“America is a laughingstock.”

Actually the executive branch is a laughing stock.
Obama is a Kenyan and President Jarrett was born in Iran,
hatched from an egg fertilized on the planet Reptilia.
Sebelius is a beady-eyed, hatchet-faced android assembled in Mexico.
We’re being occupied by The Three Stooges.


8 posted on 12/03/2013 8:41:32 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: MulberryDraw; doc1019
Did you mean $650 million?

That was the original cost up to Oct. 1st when it opened. Didn't they say they would have to spend an additional $400 million for the fixes? Making it a $1 billion dollar+ website.

9 posted on 12/03/2013 10:28:38 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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