Thus infamously spake Rudy Giuliani, who yesterday finally found a teat far down on the underbelly of the new Trump administration. Giuliani, it is said, “will be sharing his expertise and insight as a trusted friend concerning private sector cybersecurity problems and emerging solutions developing in the private sector.”
In celebration, the website of Giuliani’s computer security firm crashed several times yesterday due to security problems that left it ‘extremely vulnerable to hackers.’
His website giulianisecurity.com, which crashed several times on Thursday, is run on an outdated version of Joomla! – a freely available content management system.
The version of the CMS Giuliani is using for his website is about four years old, which features more than a dozen vulnerabilities.
The flaws were pointed out by on social media by numerous renowned hackers including The Jester and Phobos Group founder Dan Tentler.
‘Giuliansecurity.com is currently down. Unclear if Trumps cybersecurity pick killed it out of shame or sheer weight of twitter laughing,’ The Jester tweeted.
Best of luck, Mr. Giuliani. I’m sure if you express your views on authority to them, the computers of the nation will fall respectfully into line. Be firm! Be stern.
When I saw that announcement yesterday, my first thought was “what the hell could someone like Giuliani possibly know about computer security?”. But now, thanks to the vast TUAK research staff, I hear that he owns a “computer security firm”. So I guess everything is OK.
I just hope that he doesn’t own any brain surgery practices.
Might be more of a computer insecurity firm.