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Cigar
01-16-2014, 03:36 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Cybersecurity concerns over President Barack Obama's health care website have been cleared up through testing, a government security professional who initially had qualms about the system assured lawmakers Thursday.

But a congressional hearing featuring three senior technology experts from within the Health and Human Services Department also revealed a broader internal debate before the hapless launch of HealthCare.gov last fall.

One of the witnesses, HHS Chief Information Officer Frank Baitman, said he personally brought security issues to the attention of the department's second-in-command, Bill Corr, as well as another senior official. It's unclear what, if anything, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and White House officials were told.

The maddening technical problems that frustrated consumers for weeks as they tried to sign up for health insurance would pale in comparison if a serious security breach compromised the names, Social Security numbers, incomes and other personal information of millions of Americans.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140116/DABC3GM80.html


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Peter1469
01-16-2014, 04:54 PM
Good luck with that!

Professor Peabody
01-16-2014, 10:10 PM
Comical even from Ceeegar....


December 23, 2013 12:00 AM

Hiding the Hacking at HealthCare.gov

If your personal info is filched from the site, the government doesn’t have to tell you.

By John Fund

But at least Target informed its customers of the security breach, as it is required by federal law to do. HealthCare.gov faces no such requirement; it need never notify customers that their personal information has been hacked or possibly compromised. The Department of Health and Human Services was specifically asked to include a notification requirement in the rules it designed for the health-care exchanges, but HHS declined.

The Federal Register tells the tale (http://exchange.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/exchangenvgov/Content/Resources/CMS-9989-F.pdf) about what happened on March 27, 2012, at a meeting on the issue.

According to a report by the group Watchdog.org (http://watchdog.org/118873/obamacare-exchange-security/print/), HHS responded: “We do not plan to include the specific notification procedures in the final rule. Consistent with this approach, we do not include specific policies for investigation of data breaches in this final rule.” In other words, the government doesn’t have to tell you about a security breach unless it decides it wants to...

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/366964/hiding-hacking-healthcaregov-john-fund

The Government won't even abide by the regulations they set down of everyone else, no surprises there. The Obama administration has show time and again (Benghazi, IRSgate, Fast & Furious and Obama Care) that they believe they are above the law that applies to the rest of us. Breeches in Security that they were warned about, they feel no need to tell us if our social security numbers were compromised or not. But Target had only your credit/debit card info and they were required by law to disclose the breech.

pragmatic
01-16-2014, 10:23 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Cybersecurity concerns over President Barack Obama's health care website have been cleared up through testing, a government security professional who initially had qualms about the system assured lawmakers Thursday.

But a congressional hearing featuring three senior technology experts from within the Health and Human Services Department also revealed a broader internal debate before the hapless launch of HealthCare.gov last fall.

One of the witnesses, HHS Chief Information Officer Frank Baitman, said he personally brought security issues to the attention of the department's second-in-command, Bill Corr, as well as another senior official. It's unclear what, if anything, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and White House officials were told.

The maddening technical problems that frustrated consumers for weeks as they tried to sign up for health insurance would pale in comparison if a serious security breach compromised the names, Social Security numbers, incomes and other personal information of millions of Americans.

FULL story at link.




Well if one person (on the Obama team) says "no problems, good to go" then i guess we are all in happy land.

Still there is that pesky list of experts who say that it isn't secure. But fuck those partisan bastards....

Kalkin
01-16-2014, 10:28 PM
Still polling upside down by double digits.