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Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers (theregister.co.uk)

Donald Trump has slammed Hillary Clinton for using private email servers numerous times, but it turns out his inboxes aren't that secure either. From a report on The Register: Security researcher Kevin Beaumont discovered the Trump organization uses a hopelessly outdated and insecure internet setup. Servers on the Trump Organization's domain, TrumpOrg.com, are using outdated software, run Windows Server 2003 and the built-in Internet Information Server 6 web server. Microsoft cut off support for this technology in July 2015, leaving the systems unpatched for the last 15 months. In addition, Beaumont said he'd found that emails from the Trump Organization failed to support two-factor authentication. That's particularly bad because the Trump Organization's web-based email access page relies on an outdated March 2015 build of Microsoft Exchange 2007, he says. "Windows Server 2003, IIS 6 and Exchange 2003 went end of life years ago. There are no security fixes. They don't have basics down," the UK-based researcher concludes. Beaumont's findings are based simply on inspecting publicly available information rather than actively scanning for vulnerabilities or attempting to gain access to insecure systems, a point lost on Trump supporters who have reported him to the Feds.

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  1. trumporg.com? by rduke15 · · Score: 4, Funny

    He couldn't decide between getting an .org or a .com domain, so he took trumporg.com?
    Anyway, trumpcom.org is still available if someone has an idea of something to do with it...

    $ whois trumpcom.org
    NOT FOUND
    >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2016-10-19T23:47:43Z

  2. Also by Xenographic · · Score: 2, Funny

    The man can't even hide his bald head. If there was anything juicy to leak, you'd think they'd have already leaked it by now because it's pretty clear that he has a server that anyone could've robbed ages ago.

    If you want juicy Hillary quotes, you read her FBI files or the Podesta dump. If you want juicy Trump quotes, you can just read his damn Twitter feed.