A security researcher recently discovered that the some of the email servers linked to Mr. Trump’s organization (including hotels and other businesses) has some serious security flaw. One of the biggest issue is that the email servers are running Windows Server 2003, an operating system that Microsoft hasn’t supported since July of 2015. Even worse, the email servers are not patched. Also an issue is the use of out-dated software, in this case Microsoft IIS 6.0. IIS version 6 is a web server that comes with MS Windows Server 2003, so it is also unsupported by Microsoft. And to add to all that, the servers use one factor authentication. What’s interesting is the researcher got all this from doing what we’ve done in class in regards to reconnaissance. He searched through public info and he didn’t run any advanced scans. Isn’t ironic how Mr. Trump talks about the lack of security in Mrs. Clinton’s email servers but has the same issues with his own servers.
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Those who live in a glass house shouldn’t throw stones. You would have thought his IT team would be on point when it comes to IT security after watching what happened to Hillary. In many cases IT is always an afterthought until something goes wrong and this is a perfect example of something waiting to go wrong.
If this happens to be true, it looks like he needs to protect his business I.T. infrastructure before learning how to protect The U.S.’. Also, how come auditors failed to find such critical vulnerabilities, since he claimed of being audited on a yearly basis? The power of the “Reconnaissance” step.
hello Jimmy/class- in a radio show on my way to work i head the reported touching about this incident and how the version of Microsoft server has not been patched in over a year. at his conclusion and I think it was brilliant he mention “Mr. Trump, instead of worrying about the Mexican wall, you should worry about your firewall.”