Report: State Dept. uses software that Russia hackers have exploited

"Within the United States government, Exim servers that are vulnerable to exploitation have been identified within the State Department networks, various state and local government networks, such as Lewisburg, Tennessee, the Township of Ocean in New Jersey, and Paducah, Kentucky," the report says.

Falkowitz said political campaigns in particular should immediately stop using the software and instead rely on email systems run by Google or Microsoft, which have huge security operations designed to protect their users from hacking threats.Exim is a free"message transfer agent" developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. In 2019, a vulnerability was discovered that would allow hackers to take complete control of a user's server.

Before that warning, analysts at the cybersecurity firm RiskIQ did a scan of open internet ports in early May and found more than 900,000 Exim web serversArea1's report lists seven members of Congress whose campaigns are using Exim software. If they were using it before the patch was issued, attackers could have gained access to their networks and could still have that access, Falkowitz said.

One of them, Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., serves on the Intelligence Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee. A spokesman for Banks said his campaign‘s software was patched and no longer vulnerable, but is moving email operations to a Google server to be safe.Ken Dilanian

Gop are traitors

So, why don’t we take down the Russian hacker groups. Are we saying we can’t stop them. Are we saying they are smarter than us. Time to become offensive in the tech warfare battles that are playing out. This is a war games scenario and we need to win the game.

Spend the money on eliminating these security problems and less money on trying to suppress free speech!

of course they do, that is is what they are instructed to use, and for a reason

You mean like the Democrats are using

They have the agency report and still don't follow it. That's inconceivable.

Nothing to do with Putin then?

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