Trump Is Running Some Really Insecure Email Servers

[highplainsdem]

Source: Motherboard/Vice

In what might be one of the more delicious cases of irony to ever grace a presidential election, a researcher has found that a number of email servers linked to Donald Trump’s hotel and others businesses are running horribly out of date software which receive no security patches, and are lacking other precautions for keeping hackers out.

The findings come at a time when cybersecurity is a crucial topic in the presidential election, with hackers dumping documents from Hillary Clinton’s campaign online, and Trump and his supporters continuing to criticise Clinton’s use of a private email server.

“Running outdated software and operating systems for your publicly facing email infrastructure is problematic, especially when you're a high profile organisation,” security architect Kevin Beaumont, who highlighted the issues with Trump’s servers, told Motherboard in an email. “During an election where cybersecurity is such a big issue, I was a little amazed at what I saw.”

A number of mail servers for TrumpOrg.com, a domain registered to The Trump Organization, are using end-of-life software, according to Beaumont. Those include the operating system Windows Server 2003, and IIS 6.0 which comes shipped with it.

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Read more: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/trump-is-running-some-really-insecure-email-servers

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This Motherboard article notes that the webserver IIS 6.0 is particularly dangerous to run unpatched, and links to this article about it:

http://www.itproportal.com/2015/07/09/when-microsoft-windows-server-2003-support-ends-iis-6-0-will-be-left-vulnerable/

[msanthrope]

1. What a shame if someone were to hack it. nt

[MADem]

2. Well, he's safe from the Russians.

They've probably already hacked it, they won't mess with him unless he gets out of line!

[world wide wally]

4. This. ^

[jmowreader]

11. Why in heaven's name would they need to hack Trump's server?

Junior Comrade Donald Fredericovich Trump has probably given the Russians admin access to it.

[Maeve]

3. And they have the temerity to criticize...oh, never mind!

Karma is another female Don the Con is going to have a run-in with.

[Equinox Moon]

5. Have we heard anything from-- Anonymous-- lately?

[Roland99]

6. IIS 6.0??

good gawd!

[awake]

7. Well how sad would it be if TrumpOrg.com were taken down by a hacker

Just saying. After all if anyone reading this is a hacker with the skills to tack down that sever I bet not many on this site whould be upset. As is said Karma can be a b*tch.

[astral]

8. Are we comparing this to what Clinton did?

Since when is a presidential candidate's email server an issue to examine?

[yardwork]

9. Trump is too cheap to upgrade.

[MADem]

13. Maybe he can't afford it...

He could be living "Russian paycheck to Russian paycheck" for all we know.