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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2233359" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7006105d422740f0b4b8675c90f9a154/emails-key-security-features-disabled-clintons-server" target="_blank">Emails: Key security features disabled on Clinton&#039;s server</a>WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department staffers wrestled for weeks in December 2010 over a serious technical problem with then-Secretary Hillary Clinton&#039;s home email server, causing them to temporarily disable security features that left the server more vulnerable to hackers, according to emails released Wednesday.Just weeks later, according to previously disclosed emails, hackers attacked the server, forcing Clinton&#039;s staff to shut it down. The next day, one of Clinton&#039;s closest aides, Huma Abedin, wrote to other high ranking staff: &quot;Don&#039;t email hrc (Clinton) anything sensitive. I can explain more in person.&quot;The emails, reviewed by The Associated Press, show that State Department technical staff disabled software intended to block phishing emails that could deliver dangerous viruses. They were trying urgently to resolve an apparent conflict between the server&#039;s built-in email delivery features with a version of &quot;ScanMail for Exchange&quot; security software from Trend Micro Inc. that had been installed on her server.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2233359, member: 12952"] [URL="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7006105d422740f0b4b8675c90f9a154/emails-key-security-features-disabled-clintons-server"]Emails: Key security features disabled on Clinton's server[/URL] WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department staffers wrestled for weeks in December 2010 over a serious technical problem with then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's home email server, causing them to temporarily disable security features that left the server more vulnerable to hackers, according to emails released Wednesday. Just weeks later, according to previously disclosed emails, hackers attacked the server, forcing Clinton's staff to shut it down. The next day, one of Clinton's closest aides, Huma Abedin, wrote to other high ranking staff: "Don't email hrc (Clinton) anything sensitive. I can explain more in person." The emails, reviewed by The Associated Press, show that State Department technical staff disabled software intended to block phishing emails that could deliver dangerous viruses. They were trying urgently to resolve an apparent conflict between the server's built-in email delivery features with a version of "ScanMail for Exchange" security software from Trend Micro Inc. that had been installed on her server. [/QUOTE]

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