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Experts Find DOS Tool Designed to Take Down Obamacare Website

08
Nov
2013

Security researchers from distributed denial-of-service (DOS) protection solutions provider Arbor Networks have come across a DOS tool that appears to be specifically designed to launch attacks against the main Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov. The tool has been written in Delphi and is designed to send layer 7 r…

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