Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Unbalanced reporting

Isn't it interesting that all you see on when you go to the news site (eg., http://www.cnn.com/, http://www.nbcnews.com/, what you see is references to problems with the web site. To find an article about the right-wing hacking, you have to do a search. I don't remember hearing about the right-wing hacking of the health care site on NPR radio news.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/13/politics/hackers-attack-obamacare-site/

By Joe Johns and Stacey Samuel, CNN
updated 5:18 PM EST, Mon November 18, 2013

Hackers have attempted more than a dozen cyber attacks against the Obamacare website, according to a top Homeland Security Department official.

The attacks, which are under investigation, failed, said the official.

Authorities also are investigating a separate report of a tool designed to put heavy strain on HealthCare.gov through a so-called distributed denial of service. It does not appear to have been activated.

"We received about 16 reports from HHS that are under investigation and one open source report about a denial of service," according to Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Roberta Stempfley of the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications.

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