Steve posted: "OK, so what I get out of this article is either part of
the code for Obamacare was written by a firm with ties to Belarus, which is
an authoritarian regime that is closely allied with Russia and is
adversarial toward the United States,. Or it was hijacke" Respond to
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*OK, so what I get out of this article is either part of the code for
Obamacare was written by a firm with ties to Belarus, which is
an authoritarian regime that is closely allied with Russia and is
adversarial toward the United States,. Or it was hijacked to Belarus and
written there and malware installed. Not Good.*
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The Belarusian Connection
Obamacare network vulnerable to cyber attack
BY: Bill Gertz <http://freebeacon.com/author/bill-gertz/>
February 3, 2014 8:11 pm
U.S. intelligence agencies last week urged the Obama administration to
check its new healthcare network for malicious software after learning that
developers linked to the Belarus government helped produce the website,
raising fresh concerns that private data posted by millions of Americans
will be compromised.
The intelligence agencies notified the Department of Health and Human
Services, the agency in charge of the Healthcare.gov network, about their
concerns last week. Specifically, officials warned that programmers in
Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, were
suspected of inserting malicious code that could be used for cyber attacks,
according to U.S. officials familiar with the concerns.
The software links the millions of Americans who signed up for Obamacare to
the federal government and more than 300 medical institutions and
healthcare providers.
"The U.S. Affordable Care Act software was written in part in Belarus by
software developers under state control, and that makes the software a
potential target for cyber attacks," one official said.
Cyber security officials said the potential threat to the U.S. healthcare
data is compounded by what they said was an Internet data "hijacking" last
year involving Belarusian state-controlled networks. The month-long
diversion covertly rerouted massive amounts of U.S. Internet traffic to
Belarus--a repressive dictatorship located between Russia, Poland, and
Ukraine.
"Belarusian President [Alexander] Lukashenko's authoritarian regime is
closely allied with Russia and is adversarial toward the United States,"
the official added.
The combination of the Belarus-origin software, the Internet re-routing,
and the anti-U.S. posture of the Belarusian government "makes the software
written in Belarus a potential target of cyber attacks for identity theft
and privacy violations" of Americans, the official said.
Security officials urged HHS to immediately conduct inspections of the
network software for malicious code. The software currently is used in all
medical facilities and insurance companies in the United States.
The officials also recommended that HHS use security specialists not
related to software vendors for the inspections to reduce further risks.
Officials disclosed the software compromise last week after the discovery
in early January of statements by Belarusian official Valery Tsepkalo,
director of the government-backed High-Technology Park (HTP) in Minsk.
*Tsepkalo told a Russian radio station in an interview broadcast last
summer that HHS is "one of our clients," and that "we are helping Obama
complete his insurance reform."*
*"Our programmers wrote the program that appears on the monitors in all
hospitals and all insurance companies--they will see the full profile of the
given patient," Tsepkalo said June 25 on Voice of Russia Radio.*
White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said an
intelligence report on the Belarusian software was "recalled by the
intelligence community shortly after it was issued."
The report has prompted HHS to conduct a review to determine if software
related to the Affordable Care Act "was written by Belarusian software
developers," she said.
"So far HHS has found no indications that any software was developed in
Belarus," Hayden said. "However, as a matter of due diligence, they will
continue to review the supply chain. Supply chain risk is real and it is
one of our top concerns in the area of cyber-security."
A senior administration official questioned whether suspect software
mentioned in the report would be valuable to a nation state.
"Nation states are generally not interested in [personal identification
information] for its own sake," the official said. "Given that, we would be
surprised to see a nation-state capability applied in this matter. But we
are doing a thorough review anyway."
HSS spokeswoman Dori Salcido referred questions about the matter to Richard
A. Olague, spokesman for the HHS' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS). Olague declined to discuss the software vulnerability.
He also would not say if CMS is conducting a search for malicious software
emanating from Belarus.
CMS said in a statement to the *Washington Free Beacon* that assessments by
independent security contractors are conducted regularly by companies such
as MITRE and Blue Canopy.
The website also is continuously monitored by CMS technicians and
electronic sensors, and weekly penetration tests to check the security of
the system are carried out.
A CMS security team in place also seeks to "identify anomalous activity,
and to deter and prevent any unauthorized access," the statement said.
"In addition, as new website functions continue to go live, CMS follows a
rigorous and regular change management process with ongoing testing and
mitigation strategies implemented in real time," the statement said. "This
occurs on a regular basis, in between the testing periods."
A spokeswoman for CGI Federal, the main federal contractor for the
healthcare network, also had no immediate comment.
Intel chair calls for probe
*REST HERE* <http://freebeacon.com/the-belarusian-connection/>
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