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Trump Organization uses really, really insecure e-mail servers. Sad!

October 18, 2016/in Internet Security

Hillary Clinton isn’t the only one who may have had an e-mail security problem. A security researcher has discovered that the Trump Organization’s mail servers all run on a version of Microsoft Windows Server that has been out of support for years, with minimal user security. The e-mail servers for Trump’s hotels, golf courses and other businesses run on an unpatched version of Windows Server 2003 with Internet Information Server 6—making them a vulnerable target for anyone who might want to gain access to the organization’s e-mails.

Security researcher Kevin Beaumont posted the finding on Twitter at 6:00pm on Monday:

Quick update on Trump corp email servers – all internet accessible, single factor auth, no MDM, Win2003, no security patching. pic.twitter.com/nIMTa9UmdL

— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) October 17, 2016

Beaumont also found the Trump Organization’s Web-based e-mail access page. Until this morning, the Trump Organization allowed Outlook Web Access (OWA) logins from webmail.trumporg.com. Beaumont said he did not attempt to log into the e-mail system.

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Really, CNN? Trump and Obama?

October 15, 2016/in Internet Security

My brother has the CNN app on his iPhone and tells me the network just sent him this bit of rather startling news:

Uh … one can assume the twins starting a new life are the formerly conjoined Anias and Jadon McDonald.

And Obama was addressing his rebuff to Trump.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Spammers prefer Trump over Clinton, but are rapidly losing faith in Trump

October 8, 2016/in Internet Security

Whatever difficulties Donald Trump may be having with white college-educated women, African Americans, Latinos, hawkish conservatives and the co-hosts of “Morning Joe,” he’s far and away the favorite presidential candidate of at least one demographic group: spammers.

However, he seems to have lost significant support among that group as well.

These conclusions are drawn from a year’s worth of data assembled by Network World Test Alliance member Joel Snyder, a senior partner at Opus One in Tucson, Ariz. Opus One has been testing anti-spam products for more than a decade, and, as the following chart shows, Trump-related spam has dwarfed Clinton-related spam over the past year … only less so as the campaign has worn on.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Was Trump bitten by Twitter time-stamp bug that stung Alec Baldwin’s wife?

October 1, 2016/in Internet Security

The answer is almost certainly no, but …

If you’ve been following the political news today, one joyously mocked aspect of Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant early this morning has been that one of the tweets was apparently sent at 3:20 a.m.

I say apparently – despite the clearly visible 3:20 a.m. time-stamp – because Twitter time-stamps have been known to go haywire in the past, sometimes causing problems, such as when the bug made it appear that Alec Baldwin’s wife Hilaria had tweeted idle pleasantries during the June 2013 funeral of Sopranos star James Gandolfini. Hilaria had done no such thing, but erroneous reports to the contrary sparked by the bug caused her husband to blow a gasket.

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