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While President Donald Trump decided not to sign an executive order on cybersecurity (pdf<\/a>), which would have required a review of the nation\u2019s cyber vulnerabilities to be done in a mere 60 days, he told<\/a> reporters, \u201cI will hold my cabinet secretaries and agency heads accountable, totally accountable for the cybersecurity of their organization.\u201d<\/p>\n 8 months later, vulnerable Pentagon servers still not patched <\/strong><\/p>\n 60 days would be crazy-fast, considering the Pentagon has known it is running vulnerable servers for more than eight months and yet still has not<\/a> implemented fixes. The misconfigured servers were discovered by security researcher Dan Tentler, founder of the Phobos Group<\/a>. He told<\/a> ZDNet, \u201cIt’s very likely that these servers are being exploited in the wild.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Tentler did report<\/a> the Department of Defense cybersecurity issue to HackerOne, which runs the Hack the Pentagon (pdf<\/a>) bug bounty program, the flawed servers were considered to be \u201cout of the scope\u201d of what is allowed to be tested. Tentler pointed out that Russia and China don\u2019t care what the acceptable probing guidelines are; \u201cyou can bet they\u2019re scanning those networks.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere were hosts that were discovered that had serious technical misconfiguration problems that could be easily abused by an attacker inside or outside of the country, who could want to implicate the US as culprits in hacking attacks if they so desire,\u201d Tentler told ZDNet\u2019s Zack Whittaker. \u201cThe flaw could allow politically motivated attacks that could implicate the US.\u201d<\/p>\n If the Pentagon can’t patch after more than eight months, can President Trump seriously believe all the nation’s cyber vulnerabilities could be reviewed in 60 days? After he decided not to sign the cybersecurity executive order as was originally planned, he said, \u201cWe must protect federal networks and data. We operate these networks on behalf of the American people, and they are very important and very sacred.\u201d<\/p>\n Cybersecurity is more important than some people can comprehend \u2013 it touches everything these days, but another \u201cvery sacred\u201d thing to Americans that needs to be protected is freedom of speech.<\/p>\n Reuters braces reporters covering Trump for bumpy ride<\/strong><\/p>\n There shouldn\u2019t be a chilling effect on free speech because of any president. The news needs to continue to be the news, not news like that which is reported from state-owned news outlets in authoritarian regimes. Reuters pointed out, \u201cIt\u2019s not every day that a U.S. president calls journalists \u2018among the most dishonest human beings on earth\u2019 or that his chief strategist dubs the media \u2018the opposition party\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Reuters is so concerned that its Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler reminded<\/a> his staff that they manage to pump out the news in other locations where \u201cthe media is unwelcome and frequently under attack\u201d such as \u201cTurkey, the Philippines, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Thailand, China, Zimbabwe, and Russia, nations in which we sometimes encounter some combination of censorship, legal prosecution, visa denials, and even physical threats to our journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n White House freezes out CNN<\/strong><\/p>\n If you don\u2019t think the White House is hostile to news outlets not agreeing with its agenda, look no further than CNN which is currently being \u201cpunished.\u201d Politico reported<\/a> that the Trump administration has iced out CNN. A White House official confirmed the ban, saying it is not necessarily permanent. \u201cWe\u2019re sending surrogates to places where we think it makes sense to promote our agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n Colbert and Stewart tag-team against Trump<\/strong><\/p>\n As former Daily Show<\/em> host Jon Stewart said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/em>, trying to cover Trump is \u201cexhausting.\u201d Stewart added, \u201cThe presidency is supposed to age the president, not the public.\u201d The comedians discussed securing the border with the Great Wall of China, abuse of power and America\u2019s new official language.<\/p>\n Stewart said, \u201cWe have never faced this before \u2013 purposeful, vindictive chaos.\u201d Regarding Trump\u2019s presidency, Stewart said, \u201cIf we do not allow Donald Trump to exhaust our fight \u2013 and somehow come through this presidency calamity-less and constitutionally, partially intact,\u201d then Trump \u201cwill have demonstrated the greatness of America\u201d \u2013 just not the way Trump thought he would.<\/p>\n *Some viewers may take offense at language, etc.<\/p>\n