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 From a report on The Register: Security researcher Kevin Beaumont discovered the Trump organization uses a hopelessly outdated and insecure internet setup. Servers on the Trump Organization's domain, TrumpOrg.com, are using outdated software, run Windows Server 2003 and the built-in Internet Information Server 6 web server.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 That's particularly bad because the Trump Organization's web-based email access page relies on an outdated March 2015 build of Microsoft Exchange 2007, he says.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

[PopeRatzo]

Trump isn't the Secretary of State and don't handle classifieds documents.

UNDERSTOOD ?

Donald Trump is being given national security briefings, so who knows?

This changes the hacks

[dirk]

So this certainly puts a different spin on the DNC and Clinton email hacks. It certainly looks more and more like they were politically motivated. A curious child could hack this setup and yet there has been no release of documents from the Trump campaign's email servers. If it truly was about just sharing information, why would they not attack both sides? The longer it goes, the more it looks like someone (or someones) is purposely trying to influence the election with the hacks and leaks. If Wikileaks was really about just releasing information, why would they be slowly releasing the hacked emails over time before the election instead of just releasing them all at once? IT's not like the scrub person information from them, so what is the purpose of slowly dishing them out if not to keep it in the news and influence people?