Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Why Has Trump's Cybersecurity Adviser's Website Mysteriously Disappeared?

DNS records for the Giuliani Security website have been deleted, and the IP address isn't working either. 

By Mary Ann- Russon

First President-elect Donald Trump bewildered the tech world by hiring former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani to lead the Trump administration's cybersecurity agenda, and now Giuliani's website has mysteriously gone offline.

At his first press conference on Wednesday 11 January, Trump announced that he intended to gather "some of the greatest computer minds anywhere in the world" to tackle the recent spate of cybersecurity problems facing the US government, but then instead of hiring a well-known firm or talking to Silicon Valley's elite, he hired Giuliani, who heads Giuliani Partners, a consulting firm supposedly focusing on cybersecurity.

Tech and mainstream media alike mocked the Giuliani Security and Safety website (view a cached copy here on Wayback Machine) because it featured a simplistic, out-of-date page layout akin to something out of the early 2000s, as well as a whole host of critical security flaws, including expired SSL encryption, an exposed CMS login page and the use of Adobe Flash, which browsers have all but ditched. 

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Source: International Business Times (via The Empire Report)

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