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 From a report on The Register: Security researcher Kevin Beaumont discovered the Trump organization uses a hopelessly outdated and insecure internet setup. Servers on the Trump Organization's domain, TrumpOrg.com, are using outdated software, run Windows Server 2003 and the built-in Internet Information Server 6 web server.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 That's particularly bad because the Trump Organization's web-based email access page relies on an outdated March 2015 build of Microsoft Exchange 2007, he says.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.

Comments

Re:But . . .

[ScentCone]

As if the Secretary of State even had access to the truly classified documents...

Yes, the SoS does have access to such. And is regularly briefed on stuff that's much, much more sensitive than merely "classified." The person holding that job is on the short list of people in line for the presidency if a small number of particularly bad things happen.

The documents Clinton had slopping around on her home computer included things that were considered so sensitive that the intel community insisted not on merely having the contents redacted, but on the documents not even being abstractly described (in terms of dates, to/from info, let alone the actual content).

Re:As much as I dislike Trump ...

[smooth wombat]

So she was following the example of Bush who didn't preserve millions of emails as the law requires so he could hide his illegal activities from FOIA requests.

Got it.