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Cyber revue · Governance & the human factor
Edition of 13 September 2026 · No. 148Independent pressGran Canaria · Bilingual FR·EN
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Secteur public & santé
14 analyses on this topic, from the most recent to the oldest.
PoliticsCybersecurity must not become an election issueThe summer of 2026 gave France a glimpse of what a digitised administration produces when it is not secured. The political year is opening, the presidential campaign is starting, and cybersecurity is finally going to find its place in public debate. That is exactly what worries me.
CybersecurityA week of data breaches in France: the file nobody wantedBetween 15 and 22 August 2026, some thirty disclosed incidents assembled a file on French citizens that no authority would have approved. Why it is happening, why now, and what to fear next.
CybersecurityFrance's tax authority knew in late June. You found out on 13 AugustIn February, the French tax authority had 1.2 million records stolen from FICOBA, the national register of French bank accounts, using one officer's credentials. In late June, it had 678,000 tax files stolen using one officer's credentials. In between, the Prime Minister announced 200 million euros for the state's cybersecurity.
CybersecurityCISA, the GitHub leak: when the watchdog leaves the keys in the doorCISA, the US cyber agency, exposed its own AWS GovCloud credentials on public GitHub for 6 months. Anatomy of a leak in 7 failures.
CybersecurityThe ANTS hack: the 2007 flaw, the 2026 cheque, and the gap no figure can closeLecornu calls the ANTS breach the "heist of the century." It is a student homework-assignment heist. A 2007 flaw. With 200 million euros of announcement effect on top.
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.
CybersecurityThe French state's cybersecurity roadmap: the document that says everything without meaning toAn official document lands on your desk. It comes from the Prime Minister. It is called "Roadmap of priority efforts for the state's digital security 2026-2027". You open it.
CybersecurityFICOBA: 1.2 million bank accounts exposed. So now what?FICOBA is the national register of bank and similar accounts. Created in 1971, it lists every account opened at French banking institutions: current accounts, savings accounts, securities accounts, rented safe-deposit boxes.
CybersecurityThe Health Data Hub: at last a step toward digital sovereigntyThe Health Data Hub (HDH) is a public platform created in 2019 to centralise, structure and make available, within a controlled framework, French health data for research, innovation and the steering of public policy that…
CybersecurityDDoS Attacks: the "digital traffic jams" that can paralyze a country (and why it's going to get worse)A DoS / DDoS attack is exactly this: a traffic jam created on purpose, not to steal your data, but to stop you from reaching a service.
SocietyData breach at MédecinDirect: when digital health forgets what matters mostThe cyberattack that hit MédecinDirect, disclosed in early December, affects up to 323,000 patients. The number is already enormous. But that is not what should worry us the most.
CybersecurityOpen letter to Emmanuel Macron. Cybersecurity is not a technical subject. It is a duty of the State.Mr President Macron. I am not writing to plead a cause. I am writing because it is time to stop pretending.
PoliticsWhen Naive Environmentalism Becomes a Strategic VulnerabilityNorway has just made an explosive discovery: 850 electric buses running in Oslo can be stopped remotely by their Chinese manufacturer.
PoliticsUSB stick and state silence: digital complacency has struck againSalah Abdeslam, convicted for the November 13 attacks, was taken into police custody for illegally possessing... a USB stick in prison. Four sticks plugged into a port that should never have worked.
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