Cybersecurity News

This week’s barometer: compliance, flaws and speed, sector by sector

This week our panel of 4,719 websites averages 73/100 on compliance, 70 on vulnerability and 66 on speed. Banking and tech lead; the public sector and non-profits trail. Here is w…

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Cisco Secure Email Gateway: a single booby-trapped email gives attackers root, flaw already exploited

Cisco has fixed CVE-2026-76519, a critical flaw in its Secure Email Gateway that lets anyone send an email with a crafted attachment to write files and run commands as root on the…

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Vacaf, France's family holiday-aid platform, hit by a data breach claimed by a hacker

Vacaf, the holiday-aid service of France's family-benefit funds, was hit by a cyberattack. The attacker claims about 1.2 million files — names, children, benefit details — a figur…

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France’s cybersecurity agency hit through Metabase: the “harmless” internal tools nobody watches

ANSSI, the French national cybersecurity agency, has confirmed that 118 accounts of its innovation lab were compromised through a critical zero-day in Metabase, a self-hosted dash…

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Tax data stolen from France’s DGFiP: what ANSSI’s incident report teaches every company

ANSSI has published its investigation into this summer’s data thefts at the French tax administration. Its conclusion: no sophisticated attack, but stolen passwords, missing multi…