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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“I’m wondering if they’ll ever re-open.”
My brother the M I S guy says, most companies that lose their data are out of business in two years.
Each of his company’s key executives maintained a hardware component at home. He has a system that is continuously updated at his house.
They have regularly scheduled drills to bring the components in, and reassemble a duplicate system, they also do this off-site.
Yes, I know this is likely only a public web page, not all the business data. We can hope.
That makes sense, the drills and stuff. It’s a big deal.
Thanks for the mention.
I think it would be a shame if she lost her business, but if she did she’d have only one person to blame for it.
She lost control of herself and it may cost her more dearly than she ever imagined.
The site was hacked the day after the incident. Somebody’s not doing security right. Sometimes that’s the vendor, more often it’s the customer who protects his/her source code with a password like “abc123” and thinks it’s clever.
How so?
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