It has been a week since President Donald Trump was sworn in. It has already been a shit show; he has passed over 12 executive orders in just one week. He has also changed the White House website and taken over official social media accounts.
The Republicans spent the entire election complaining about Hillary Clinton’s emails; however, Trump is still using a private Gmail account for some things. Some of his senior staffers are using a private email server.
Here is the funniest part: Donald Trump has taken over the official @POTUS Twitter account. He has a lot to learn about cyber security. The Twitter account is connected to a regular Gmail account.
A hacker discovered this little gem:
Hey @POTUS, On a serious note. Lets fix your Security settings. Should I email you? #GhostOfNoNation @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/FRdMJnZaNr
— WauchulaGhost ? (@WauchulaGhost) January 21, 2017
The Twitter accounts for @FLOTUS (the First Lady) and @VP are also connected to Gmail accounts. The hacker, @WauchulaGhost, talked to CNN about this:
“According to WauchulaGhost, @POTUS, @FLOTUS and @VP are more vulnerable because they haven’t selected a basic security feature on Twitter that requires you to provide a phone number or email address to reset your password. The current security setting for these three accounts allows anyone to click on ‘forgot password’ and type in @FLOTUS, @POTUS or @VP. The next screen says ‘we found the following information associated with your account’ and gives a partially redacted email address to which it will send a password recovery link.
WauchulaGhost says being able to fill in the missing letters and guess someone’s email address is the first step hackers take when trying to breach an account.”
After this was discovered, the email addresses attached to the account have been changed:
Update 2: Gmail account now taken off @POTUS. Appears linked to @DanScavino account pic.twitter.com/vd9MWO8B5D
— Alexandra Svokos (@asvokos) January 26, 2017
Trump is also still using his unsecured Android phone to tweet to this account. This lack of security is just plain unacceptable. They should have set up two-factor authentication and used secured email addresses when they took over that Twitter account.
Here is Saturday Night Live making fun of Trump’s tweeting:
https://youtu.be/tI3g_laToxE
Featured image via Twitter
