Donald Trump's Email Servers Are Very Unsecure
Sad!
While the email practices of the Democrats and the Clinton camp are grabbing all the headlines recently, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has some cringeworthy email practices of his own.
A computer security researcher looked into the servers associated with Trump’s business and its several arms, including its golf resorts, hotels, and real estate brokerage. The Trump Organization’s corporate servers, he discovered, run long outdated software and lack basic security measures.
Kevin Beaumont, the researcher who posted his findings on Twitter on Monday, tells Fortune he decided to investigate that matter since email servers and cybersecurity were such a big issues during the campaign.
“I decided to Google ‘trump email address’ to see what their systems looked like,” he explains via email. “I did not see what I expected.”
Beaumont dug into the public records to find that the email servers use Microsoft MSFT 1.29% Windows 2003 alongside old server management software from Microsoft called Internet Information Server 6. He also found that the servers are accessible on the public Internet via Outlook Web Access, do not employ two-factor authentication (which requires a secondary login code), have no mobile device management option, and do not receive security patches.
Microsoft deprecated support for Windows 2003 in July 2015, meaning that the company no longer maintains the code nor pushes fixes out for the software. That leaves servers running the more than a decade-old version of Windows open to attackers and spies.
Donald Trump's Email Servers Are Very Unsecure
Sad!
While the email practices of the Democrats and the Clinton camp are grabbing all the headlines recently, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has some cringeworthy email practices of his own.
A computer security researcher looked into the servers associated with Trump’s business and its several arms, including its golf resorts, hotels, and real estate brokerage. The Trump Organization’s corporate servers, he discovered, run long outdated software and lack basic security measures.
Kevin Beaumont, the researcher who posted his findings on Twitter on Monday, tells Fortune he decided to investigate that matter since email servers and cybersecurity were such a big issues during the campaign.
“I decided to Google ‘trump email address’ to see what their systems looked like,” he explains via email. “I did not see what I expected.”
Beaumont dug into the public records to find that the email servers use Microsoft MSFT 1.29% Windows 2003 alongside old server management software from Microsoft called Internet Information Server 6. He also found that the servers are accessible on the public Internet via Outlook Web Access, do not employ two-factor authentication (which requires a secondary login code), have no mobile device management option, and do not receive security patches.
Microsoft deprecated support for Windows 2003 in July 2015, meaning that the company no longer maintains the code nor pushes fixes out for the software. That leaves servers running the more than a decade-old version of Windows open to attackers and spies.
Donald Trump's Email Servers Are Very Unsecure
