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Jay carney is paid to say things that arent so. its the tip of the iceberg. if theyre willing to put politics into a website, what will they put into your health care? >> thats daryl issa. hes become the republicans front man in an unending series of witch hunts. and of course fear mongering. yet very short on actual facts. weve seen it with benghazi, with fast and furious, with the irs, and now from fox last week. there was little reason to think wed see anything different. issa continued his s...

Already or may soon find those vulnerabilities. they may soon find your social security number or your sensitive information because there was no integrated security testing before the launch. >> by the way, kathleen sebelius has testified there is no way a hacker could steal your social security number from this site. meanwhile, issa was denounced for his attacks on the health care law. >> house republicans shut down the entire federal government for three weeks in october. three weeks. shut do...

And we are aware of one open source action attempting to perpetrate a denial of service attack against healthcare.gov site that has been unsuccessful. >> reporter: we also heard today many times there will always be vulnerabilities at healthcare.gov but that the security testing will never stop. jenna. jenna: peter doocy live at the white house. peter, thank you. jon: well, one of the presidents senior advisors is now on the defensive. valerie jarrett promises outreach to business leaders on oba...

One point along the way and may have been so frustrated that they gave up. we dont want to do that until were sure that their experience will be significantly better than it was the first time. we know that a lot of young folks have little patience with any technology that doesnt work instantaneously. so, that audience is particularly important to get a very highly-functional site up and running and that is exactly what were doing. >> thank you, senator , very much. appreciate it. now i will tur...

Marketplace. theres he hub that verifies peoples ids, then theres the actual exchanges and when the exchanges went live they had never been security-tested altogether. only in pieces. >> was there ever any end testing on the exchange? >> there was end-to-end testing on the hub. he exchange. >> there was individual modular testing and demonstration testing inside the exchange, meaning we had sample cases, sample situations we tested through. we could not test live until we went live. therefore th...

Several weeks, peter, has the security concerns that have been brought up by lawmakers, have those been addressed with the website? >> yes. she says the data hub that verifies the identity was fully tested ahead of time and is secure. when it comes to the exchanges, she said consumers can trust them but that the testing is ongoing. >> any system that is as large is inherently risky. we continue to monitor the system and have had no serious issues. security testing never ends. it will never end a...

This document is an authority to operate memorandum, to operate the federally facilitated marketplace for six months and implement a security mitigation plan. this document, as i understand it, describes security testing for healthcare.gov. it says that security testing of the marketplace was ongoing since its inception and into september of this year. in fact it says that, quote, throughout the three rounds of security control assessment testing, all of the security controls have been tested on...

Independent security expert is performing security testing on the code that powers the website on an on going basis. is that correct? >> that is correct and miter did an assessment of the system, gave us a preliminary report. they are in the process of posting their final report. that did not raise flags about going ahead and the mitigation strategy was put in place to make sure that we had a temporary authority to operate in place while the mitigation was going on and then a permanent authority...

Have been lucky and had some failed attempts. but hijacking airplanes remaine the unholy grail for al qaeda and its allies. think of all the may hem caused on 9/11 from a few airplanes. think of what you can do the evil creative ways to use an airplane. god forbid crash one into a nuclear reactor. there are dry runs going on. >> taste a scary thought and reports have raised the question, is this security testing security in is that what were saying rather than would-be terrorists? >> i think its...

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