It is a pebble in the wave, a drop of malice that risks further aggravating the unprecedented crisis that our health system is going through. While patients have been pouring into intensive care since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic in France, hospitals must be extra vigilant in the face of the possibility of computer attacks, the effects of which could be devastating.
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A first alert took place on Sunday March 22, when a denial of service attack (DDoS) was launched on two email addresses of the Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP). For an hour, its servers were subjected to a massive number of false requests aimed at putting them out of service, forcing the AP-HP provider in charge of its IT security to block external access to their email, to Skype and AP-HP applications. An unsophisticated attack that demonstrates, however, how quick certain state or criminal actors are to
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