Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site discovered

Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by generj on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:03PM (#6690529)

I agree with this viewpoint, though I think it's also possible that a lone actor, frustrated with Obamacare, acted out using the only tools he knew in a 1/2 hour.

It wouldn't surprise me if healthcare.gov was very vulnerable to DDOS attacks - we are talking about a 2013 site which is hosted in a single data-center.

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by AsymetricCom on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:07PM (#6690554)

I wonder if a five 9's site is possible from a single datacenter. I can't imagine why not, given it's 3,000m under a mountain.

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by generj on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:25PM (#6690725)

A five 9's website is much easier to achieve using multiple, redundant, data centers.

Otherwise you end up with unforeseen events, like a tornado taking out power, or a backhoe incident, or internet outages.

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