黑客攻击工具威胁Healthcare.gov的网站

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Researchers have uncovered software available on the Internet designed to overload the struggling Healthcare.gov website with more traffic than it can handle.

"ObamaCare is an affront to the Constitutional rights of the people," a screenshot from the tool, which was acquired by researchers at Arbor Networks, declares. "We HAVE the right to CIVIL disobedience!"

In a blog post published Thursday, Arbor researcher Marc Eisenbarth said there's no evidence Healthcare.gov has been subjected to any significant denial-of-service attacks since going live last month. He also said the limited request rate, the lack of significant distribution, and other features of the tool's underlying code made it unlikely that it could play a significant role in taking down the site. The tool is designed to put a strain on the site by repeatedly alternating requests to the http://www.healthcare.gov and http:www.healthcare.gov/contact-us addresses. If enough requests are made over a short period of time, it can overload some of the "layer 7" applications that the site relies on to make timely responses.

The screenshot below shows some of the inner workings of the unnamed tool.

地址：http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/new-denial-of-service-attack-aimed-directly-at-healthcare-gov/

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感谢分享这个新闻。Healthcare.gov上线以来问题不断，现在又出现针对它的攻击工具，虽然目前看起来威胁不大，但这类工具的公开传播本身就是一个警示。网络安全在任何公共服务平台上都值得高度重视，尤其是涉及用户隐私和医疗数据的网站。