It could take a year to secure the risk of "high exposures" of personal information on the federal Obamacare online exchange, a cybersecurity expert told CNBC on Monday.Yeah, I want to sign up for that.
"When you develop a website, you develop it with security in mind. And it doesn't appear to have happened this time," said David Kennedy, a so-called "white hat" hacker who tests online security by breaching websites. He testified on Capitol Hill about the flaws of HealthCare.gov last week.
"It's really hard to go back and fix the security around it because security wasn't built into it," said Kennedy, chief executive of TrustedSec. "We're talking multiple months to over a year to at least address some of the critical-to-high exposures on the website itself."
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Hacktastic
Well, this is a promising development:
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So the Obama administration is mandating that you put yourself at risk for the sake of whatever it is that motivates them (It's difficult to know if it is malice, stupidity, idealism, evil, incompetence, all of the above?)
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