Donald Trump will take cybersecurity advice from, um, Rudy Giuliani The transition team for US president-elect Donald Trump has announced that former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani will advise the incoming administration on how to secure America's digital infrastructure. We're told that the Donald may hold meetings with senior private industry executives with experience in online security. …
I agree with the irate Saker that Trump will have his hands really full and no time to worry about cybersecurity. He better set up a hit squad stat.
The Neocons' Declaration of War Against Trump
First, and this is the really crucial part, there is more than enough here [in the CNN-alleged Trumpdump / golden shower kompromat] to impeach Trump on numerous grounds both political and legal. Let me repeat again – this is an attempt at removing Donald Trump from the White House. This is a political coup d’etat....
All of the above further confirms to me what I have been saying over the past weeks: if Trump ever makes it into the White House (I write ‘if’ because I think that the Neocons are perfectly capable of assassinating him), his first priority should be to ruthlessly crack down as hard as he legally can against those in the US “deep state” (which very much includes the media) who have now declared war on him. I am sorry to say that, but it will be either him or them – one of the parties here will be crushed.
[Sidebar: to those who wonder what I mean by “crackdown” I will summarize here what I wrote elsewhere: the best way to do that is to nominate a hyper-loyal and determined FBI director and instruct him to go after all the enemies of Trump by investigating them on charge of corruption, abuse of power, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and all the other types of behavior which have gone on forever in Congress, the intelligence community, the banking world and the media. Deal with the Neocons like Putin did with the Russian oligarchs or how the USA dealt with Al Capone – get them on tax evasion. There is no need to open Gulags or shoot people when you can get them all on what is their normal daily behavior :-)]
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...Because Rudy Guliani is already famous for his technical understanding of the internet and associated security and IT issues? Yeah somehow I don't think so.
I'll bet that he's just another one of those clueless government muppets that think "the interweb is like a bunch of tubes" and if you put the word "cyber" before everything you'll sound cool and smart.
Mark 85 is correct. This is the Aberdeenshire business owner draining the swamp, by employing a bunch of oligarchs and insiders loyal to him personally into top US government jobs.
It is less common in countries with a proper professional public service, but it's not how the Yanks do things.
At least in the US when they vote one lot out, the whole lot most appointees are let go; you're not left with all of the same appointed civil servants with the same bad ideas, though the career civil servants are left in place to run things while the political side gets sorted.
FTFY
Someone managed a port scan before it got DoSed, and either it's deliberately set up as a honeypot, or , well:
nmap scan report for giulianisecurity.com (209.238.99.227)
Host is up (0.070s latency).
Not shown: 982 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
21/tcp open ftp ProFTPD
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 4.7 (protocol 2.0)
25/tcp filtered smtp
80/tcp open http Apache
110/tcp open pop3
143/tcp open imap Dovecot. imapd
161/tcp open snmp?
389/tcp open ldap (Anonymous bind OK)
443/tcp open ssl/http Apache httpd
555/tcp open tcpwrapped
587/tcp open smtp BorderWare firewall smt.
993/tcp open ssl/imap Dovecot imapd
995/tcp open ssl/pop3 Dovecot pop3d
1971/tcp open tcpwrapped
2007/tcp open dectalk?
3306/tcp open mysql MySQL (unauthorized)
5190/tcp open smtp BorderWare firewall smtpd
8080/tcp open http Apache httpd
Wow, that is some amateur-hour stuff right there. Looks like they probably hired some guy's kid to set it up because "they know computers" who then proceeded to the grab some pre-built Linux distro with an email server and Joomla pre-installed and configured through some piece-of-crap 'Wizard'.
Given that absolutely nothing is blocked, I have the feeling that the firewall was disabled and the only reason why ports are showing as 'closed' is that there is nothing actually running on those ports.
I doubt that the machine is actually being used as a Honey Pot since several high-number ports that are very rarely attacked are open while some well-known and frequently attacked ports aren't.
"probably hired some guy's kid to set it up because "they know computers" who then proceeded to the grab some pre-built Linux distro with an email server and Joomla pre-installed and configured through some piece-of-crap 'Wizard'."
Reportedly it's a freeBSD machine.
More likely it was set up with the latest versions of stuff at he time, but RG isn't clued up enough to pay someone to apply updates/new versions as they come out, or even periodically.
The pick is completely in keeping with Trump's established form for e-security.
But never mind, because Trump is totally gonna put up a firewall. The best firewall, a beautiful firewall. And the Russians are gonna pay for it.
Given Rudy's reputation, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turned out that his security firm doesn't actually do anything but is rather just a front for accepting bribes and kick-backs from deals he made as Mayor.
I also would be quite open to believing that the only reason Rudy was hired was that Rudy gave Trump some building permits or selected his hotels as for city-sponsored activities and is now looking to collect on the kick-backs he is owed...
A certain developer lately much in the news did not just use his "juice" with the building department to move his own projects forward and hold competitors back. He also leveraged his cordial relationship with the leadership of several construction unions. One has to wonder if the IT security folks from some of these "family businesses" would be a better choice. They are, after all, adept in keeping the FBI out of their systems.
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