The hacking of the AP-HP hospital group in Paris, in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, is reminiscent of one of the most bitter cybercrime laws: as in nature, cyberattackers always favour the weakest or most fragile link. While these crimes fuel the imagination of the hooded cyber offender, our political leaders would do well to…
From tracking to tracing: one letter less seems to make a huge difference. In truth, the gap is wide open! On the one hand, geolocation tracking of people, with a profound invasion of privacy; on the other hand, the desire to reconcile freedom and health security, two principles of constitutional value. Recently, we quite rightly criticised…
The current health crisis offers a striking discrepancy between the eminently material nature of its causes and consequences and the spectacular explosion of digital uses that it has brought about. With nearly 300,000 deaths worldwide, closed borders, world trade in free fall, industries at a standstill, and States forced to take restrictive measures in terms of…
The next thematic breakfast of the FIC Observatory will take place on Tuesday 16th April 2019 on the topic « La 5G, enjeux politiques et industriels d’une révolution technologique ».
Last weekend, the media has widely communicated on the consequences of an unprecedented attack that targeted the domain names. Indeed, during the night of 22-23 February ICANN reported the large-scale attacks on the domain names: it is DNS hijacking. These attacks consist in “replacing the authorized servers addresses with addresses of machines controlled by the…
Almost every ten years, we can witness the introduction of a new generation of mobile network infrastructure. Nowadays, with the outbreak of the 5G technology, we are living one of these rare moments. In 2019, we will indeed see the launch of the first real so-called 5th generation networks, with new mobile devices and fully…
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