Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
Extending their run of the last few days, spot gold prices just exceeded their all-time highs, topping $2140 for the first time in history… …and some interesting commentary besides.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/we-have-liftoff-spot-gold-takes-out-record-high
How was today’s chapter of your autobiography?
Cyber security company, Kasada, has been investigating cyber attacks and found a number of well-known retailers might have been compromised, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
In their analysis, Kasada alleges some customers of Guzman y Gomez, Dan Murphy’s, Binge, TVSN and Event Cinemas have had their online accounts compromised.
This comes just a week after the news that online retailer, The Iconic had been breached, causing some customers to lose thousands of dollars and have their user details breached.
In these attacks, cyber criminals are using a scam called “credential stuffing” to gain access to an individual’s online account and make fraudulent transactions.
As a small business, if you trade online using an eCommerce store or you purchase online — here’s what you need to know.
Credential stuffing is a type of cyber attack that targets people who have previously had their usernames, emails or passwords stolen in a data breach. They are then more vulnerable to a second, more dangerous attack where cyber criminals reuse the email and password combinations to get access to more of your accounts, and more of your personal data.
It might help to think of credential stuffing like a cyber criminal game of bingo. Hackers will take your previously stolen passwords and try to crack your other accounts using the same details. This is why people who reuse the same passwords when shopping online are more at-risk of an attack.
When cyber criminals successfully use credential stuffing to guess your password on a online shopping account then they have the ability to place orders, and charge them back to your previously used credit card!
Kasada, who has been analysing the attacks, says that 15,000 Australian accounts have been hacked in the past three months, as at January 2023, with that number growing daily.
People who use the same passwords across many accounts are most vulnerable to a credential stuffing cyber attack, especially if they have previously had their usernames stolen in an unrelated data breach.
If you are unsure if you have previously had your data leaked online you can check by visiting the website ‘Have I been pwnd’ which checks your email against known data leaks. If the email you usually shop with is in on this list it means you can be targeted with a credential stuffing attack.
Because credential stuffing cyber attacks impersonate legitimate shoppers using real passwords and real usernames, it makes it very difficult for online businesses to identify the scam.
While many companies are still learning or investigating the attacks, we encourage you to review your bank statements and look out for any suspicious transactions.
If you think you have been hacked, you can make a report to the ACSC.
https://cyberwardens.com.au/blog/what-is-credential-stuffing/
In chatting to many people I have been able to help them identify their basic purpose. It has always been a specialization of the desire to help.
I think the problem is that we are not taught to look for it, to recognize and pursue it. In many cases we are dissuaded from it – “You can’t make enough money doing that!”
If you would like some ideas on how to identify your basic purpose, here’s a blog post I wrote to help you:
How To Work Out Your Basic Purpose In Life
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn.
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” – T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams