Remove category
Remove Information Security Remove IT Remove Passwords Remove Systems administration
article thumbnail

China-linked threat actors have breached telcos and network service providers

Security Affairs

After identifying a critical Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server, the cyber actors gained credentials to access the underlying Structured Query Language (SQL) database [ T1078 ] and utilized SQL commands to dump the credentials [ T1555 ], which contained both cleartext and hashed passwords for user and administrative accounts.”

article thumbnail

What Is an Insider Threat? Definition, Types, and Examples

IT Governance

A malicious threat can be an employee, contractor or business partner who is liable to leak sensitive information. Preventing this from happening requires a nuanced approach to information security, and it’s one that organisations are increasingly struggling with. Insider threats fall into two categories: malicious or negligent.