Trump Hacked.

Written By: - Date published: 7:54 pm, October 28th, 2020 - 8 comments
Categories: Donald Trump, International - Tags:

Had to laugh, albeit with a resigned anger, when I saw this in my emails today

This afternoon, the official Trump campaign website was hacked and defaced. We have examined the site configuration and possible intrusion vectors, and our team has published what we know about this compromise, and lessons learned. 

You can find the post on the official Wordfence blog…

e-mail from Mark Maunder at Wordfence

The link above the image gives a reasonable amount of technical analysis about what possibly went on – with some barbs about the CMS / security systems used (not Wordfence).

There is always a potential for this on every site. But it does seem like Trump’s team are somewhat security lax.

8 comments on “Trump Hacked. ”

  1. mickysavage 1

    Heh. Not Russians?

  2. mac1 2

    Anne, good point; looking closely at the text, there are several giveaways as to the origin of the writer not being an English as first language user-misspellings, grammatical oddities and strange usage.

    First thing I look for if I doubt an email's veracity.

    Also I spent most of today proof-reading a 24 page document, so the bar is high!

    • Anne 2.1

      Sorry mac1, I inadvertently deleted the comment.

      I noted that the line immediately below the heading "this site was seized" contained the word "spreaded". It should read "spread". This suggests the hacker's first language is not English.

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