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Cyber revue · Governance & the human factor
Edition of 1 November 2026 · No. 155Independent pressGran Canaria · Bilingual FR·EN
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5 analyses on this topic, from the most recent to the oldest.
SocietyCyber blackout: Sweden got its supermarket tills ready, France published a PDFIn ten days, Revolut stopped working for a whole day because of its cloud provider, Binance was drained of 6.3 billion dollars in twenty minutes and an AI wrote, in under an hour, the exploit for a critical Linux kernel flaw. A cyber blackout in France will start with ordinary acts becoming impossible, paying for groceries, filling up the car, collecting a prescription. Sweden prepared for it right down to its supermarket tills, France stopped at an online guide, and every household can nonetheless get ready now.
CybersecurityWe fix whatever makes noiseOn 21 October, PHP rushed out fixes for two critical flaws, and organisations you normally have to push into patching asked to do it. That same month, a Node.js flaw with identical consequences, the compromised keys of a certification authority and the controllers running supermarket cold rooms drew nothing like the same urgency. When we want to, we can, and what we want to fix now depends on the noise.
CybersecurityWhat nobody tells you when a hospital gets attacked.A French hospital takes two years to recover from a ransomware attack. 1,000 workstations, 200 applications, patient records lost forever. I lived through a ransomware attack in 2018. What makes me angry is not the attack.
CybersecurityThey refuse to pay a ransom... and fund cybersecurityCybersecurity: your company is paralyzed by a cyberattack. Stolen data, locked systems, a ransom demanded. Panic, stress, media pressure. A
CybersecurityCybersecurity: small businesses are not ready. And it will cost them.Talk to five owners of small businesses and you get the picture: cybersecurity is still a vague, distant, almost abstract idea. As long as no ransomware freezes the screen of Chantal in accounting, everyone carries on as before.
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