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The Red Hen restaurant that refused to serve Sarah Sanders was hit by a cyberattack
MSN/CNBC ^ | 06/29/2018 | Kate Fazzini

Posted on 06/29/2018 7:11:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Having your business suddenly in the political spotlight can have several adverse consequences, including gaining the attention of online fraudsters.

The Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Virgina, which recently made news refusing to serve White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is being targeted in a cyberattack according to a researcher. The scammers have apparently taken over parts of the Red Hen's website in order to use its sudden popularity to drive traffic to their own web sites, which sell things like discount Viagra.

The scammers likely weren’t trying to take a political stand, and instead hoped to capitalize on heightened internet traffic to the website because of the headlines, said Chris Boyd, lead malware intelligence analyst at security software company Malwarebytes, who wrote a blog post about what he found on the site. Even so, Boyd suggested that users might want to stay away from the site, as the compromise could mean the site is open to other kinds of attacks that could harm end-users.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: redhen
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To: Right Brother

Heh.....guy is cockeyed.


41 posted on 06/29/2018 8:02:20 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

Reality check, eh?


42 posted on 06/29/2018 8:03:17 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

Dang auto correct.

*The lunatics have been crowing...


43 posted on 06/29/2018 8:04:34 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: Liz

Too bad. Maybe it is the waiter who blabbed and brought all the trouble on his bosses’ head. Not that she didn’t deserve it.


44 posted on 06/29/2018 8:06:10 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Responsibility2nd

With all the homos on the Red Hen staff, how do we know that there’s no AIDS in the mayonnaise?

Answer: We don’t. The mayonnaise could indeed have AIDS.


45 posted on 06/29/2018 8:15:10 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Get off my lawn and GTFO of my country.)
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To: miss marmelstein

It would’ve gotten out one way or anothed. Lefties love to toot their own horn.


46 posted on 06/29/2018 8:19:35 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: 2CAVTrooper

I’m not exactly proud to admit it, but if tomorrow I were to read that the Red Hen restaurant had been ‘mysteriously razed’ overnight,- investigation ongoing, I would cackle with great glee.


47 posted on 06/29/2018 8:26:05 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: DoughtyOne

Yes. one cannot visit an attacked/damaged site...


48 posted on 06/29/2018 8:26:24 AM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: miss marmelstein

If all the cooks and waitstaff knew that the owner could be so easily provoked, it makes you wonder how do they know this? What other episodes are known of her acting a fool under the pretense of righteousness? If the restaurant fails, stories like this will eventually come out. Then, they will be upset with her for there state of unemployment.
She might even get sued by a member of her little ‘gang’.


49 posted on 06/29/2018 8:33:46 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The area is a political conservative bastion. It started with a gay huh.

Rural Virginia is conservative but practically every small town has liberals and gays in it. I don't know specifically about Lexington but I read that they voted for Hillary.

50 posted on 06/29/2018 8:33:55 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Liz

Working so well for them they closed until July 5th... Snort


51 posted on 06/29/2018 8:36:05 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: waterhill
Thanks waterhill.
52 posted on 06/29/2018 8:36:20 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Rumor says they are serving gerbils.


53 posted on 06/29/2018 8:37:18 AM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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To: miss marmelstein

You are so right....she wasnt even on the premises.

One of the homos called her to let her know Sara was in the place.

Her big mistake was driving in to see if it were true....then throwing Sara out.


54 posted on 06/29/2018 8:51:59 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Any competent software shop keeps the content under source code control and deployed after test verifies it passes QC/QA. Just pull the last release and reinstall. If you are modifying your live production site with no backups, you deserve the consequences.
55 posted on 06/29/2018 8:52:56 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

I agree with your take on it, but I am addressing this as a layman. I’m not involved in the handling of that type of software, but the concepts are pretty easy to grasp.


56 posted on 06/29/2018 8:58:43 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: DoughtyOne
Any competent software shop keeps the content under source code control and deployed after test verifies it passes QC/QA. Just pull the last release and reinstall. If you are modifying your live production site with no backups, you deserve the consequences.
57 posted on 06/29/2018 9:09:28 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: lee martell
Everything you say is possible. Well, since I'm inundated with liberals where I live, I would say they know her Pavlovian response through her everyday conversation and unprovoked rants against Trump & conservatives. I'm husband has given up calling an acquaintance because he says he's close to suicide over Trump. The man is one of Broadway's most successful actors and is a blithering idiot.
58 posted on 06/29/2018 9:15:13 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: ealgeone; Chode; Squantos; snooter55; All
Are You sure it wasn’t QAnon having someone fun🙄
59 posted on 06/29/2018 9:58:36 AM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

>>>an infection portal<<<

Just like a Conservative eating there after one of the Gay Waiters spits in his food (ala Jesse Jackson)?


60 posted on 06/29/2018 10:01:16 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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